Questions tagged [drivers]
A device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.
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how do I find the current i2c bus speed?
I am building custom game controllers on Linux that use the i2c bus present in video ports such as HDMI, dvi, and VGA, on standard PC hardware (x86_64). I would like to verify my current i2c bus speed ...
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Integrated IPU6/MIPI camera not working on Dell Latitude 7440 under Debian 12
I have a Dell Latitude 7440 with an integrated FHD RGB + IR Camera, but there are no drivers. It's an IPU6/MIPI Intel camera. sudo lshw -C multimedia *-multimedia:0 UNCLAIMED description: ...
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Fedora 41 how to change gpu
im on fedora 41, with an optimus laptop (1050 and 630 IGPU) and i have nvidia drivers installed fully, both screenfetch and about settings show that my 1050 is recognised however running "glxinfo ...
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Monitor doesnt work after installing nvidia drivers
On a fresh install of fedora, both my monitor and laptop screen were working perfectly fine, then after installing nvidia drivers, they installed successfully, but my secondary monitor connected via ...
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How to add a custom vendor id and product id to a Realtek Wifi driver?
I would like to add custom vendor and product id to a existing driver. The device is TP-Link TX10UB, it is a usb device. I'm currently using Arch Linux with 6.13.8-arch1-1 kernel. uname -a output ...
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Installing Debian kernel headers package does not install all kernel headers
I am currently running the most recent update of Debian bookworm (which I think is built on Linux 6.1.0.32-amd64 or Linux-6.1.129-1, that's what uname -r returns). I have been trying to install a set ...
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How do I delete a faulty device class from the command line
I was writing a simple character device driver. There was an issue in the cleanup function, cdev_del was called before device_destroy, Which means I deleted the cdev structure before deleting the ...
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Failing to SSH into a DE1-SoC even though I seem to have all dependencies met
I'm following Altera's guide for running Linux on the DE1-SoC board, specifically section 5.3 - Installing the Driver. The instructions provided in the guide are for a Windows host, and I'm on a linux ...
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Why can't RTL8832BU switch from disk mode to wifi mode on linux?
I have a TX20U nano wifi6 module, which uses the Realtek RTL8832BU chip. I downloaded the driver from github, and it worked fine on a desktop computer with debian12 (patched kernel 6.1). Then I used ...
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DTS parameters for USB3 in Xilinx ZynqMP
When setting USB3 in device tree, I've seen in dts of reference boards (for example DTS for zcu102-RevA) different parameters for setting PHY. there are two parameters in dts for USB: phys = <&...
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Is there something else I can try to fix this latency issue in the Ethernet driver?
I am using a PC to control a robot at 1000Hz. My machine has Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Linux 6.7 patched with PREEMPT_RT. The machine communicates with the robot via UDP trough a point-to-point Ethernet ...
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Can't generate secure boot keys for installing nvidia drivers
To reach the point I am at I have Installed debian with xfce made my self a sudoer added deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware to the sources list Now ...
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Cups says 'Waiting for printer to become available'
My Brother HL-110 printer is not printing anymore. There's no output corresponding to the printer in lsusb and in http://localhost:631/printers/HL-1110 it says Waiting for printer to become available. ...
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Using NVIDIA inside a Guest Arch (Junest) on RedHat server
I am trying to use an NVIDIA GPU in a server that is running red-hat linux. As it is a remote server, I do not have sudo access, so inorder to be able to use sudo to add / remove packages, I am using ...
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Installing Firmware and Driver for TV Tuner on Raspberry Pi OS (Pi 5)
I am not a total Linux noob, but I do have some knowledge gaps (particularly when it comes to drivers) and I'm kind of at a loss for how to proceed. I tried posting this to the Raspberry Pi forum, but ...
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