Re: USB wireless dongle not detected
On Thursday 18 July 2019 19:06:55 Richard Hobson wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > All video cards should respond to the vesa driver. Trolling
> > thru /var/log/Xorg.0.log with 'less' will answer that question. But
> > vesa has I believe a max resolution of 800x600 so while it will work
> > it will not work to the cards or monitors real capabilities. There
> > 2 schools of thought, one being to go get from Nvidia, the correct
> > driver for your card. But that driver does not play nice with
> > applications that need realtime or near realtime kernel performance
> > as it can lock other processes away from the kernel by disabling IRQ
> > responses, sometimes for hundreds of milliseconds in its efforts to
> > give you fast graphics. Nvidia has been kind enough to throw some
> > friendlier code over the legal wall which has allowed the linux
> > folks to write drivers for these cards, and that driver is much
> > nicer to apps that need realtime access to the kernels services. By
> > not hogging the IRQ's.
> >
> > This driver, called "nouveau", is available from most all the
> > distro's and can be installed directly from the repo's with the
> > distros favorite package manager as soon as you get a working
> > network connection going.
>
> Vesa, now there's a word I've not come across for a long time. I'm not
> sure what the resolution is it's using but it's certainly better than
> 800x600. However, clearly things are not quite right and I'm hoping
> that now I'm online and can use the appropriate software management
> tools it will be sorted out for me. The information above is
> invaluable because now I know what I'm looking for and why.
>
> >> Thanks to Greg and Curt for the info about su - and Gene for the
> >> correct syntax for checking a PATH.
> >
> > Thank you for the flowers, Richard.
>
> I couldn't get roses, I hope the daffodils will suffice.
>
> R
Neither last worth a toot when cut and vased. :) The thought lasts
longer. Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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