determining why/how hardware is supported in one distro but not another? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.

How do I find out what the difference is?

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[-] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

But where do you start to look? Most distros have their config published in two places: /boot/config-, for any installed kernel, or /proc/config.gz (cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip to read), for your running kernel.

Thanks for understanding the question and providing a concrete answer of a place to look! I will do this. :)

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