[closed] where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
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[closed] where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
on windows its very easy one has to go into device manager and there is the list of installed and uninstalled drivers. But I am struggling in finding this on mint cinnamon 18.3.
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Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
The terminal command inxi -Fxz will give all that info.
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
...try this for something which has a certain resemblance to Windows...
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
what is the semantic meaning of this command?Neil Edmond wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:00 pm The terminal command inxi -Fxz will give all that info.
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
novice linux user wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:20 pmwhat is the semantic meaning of this command?Neil Edmond wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:00 pm The terminal command inxi -Fxz will give all that info.
inxi
is the command, -Fxz
is the options to pass to the command. Open a terminal and enter man inxi
for a complete list and description of the options.“If the government were coming for your TVs and cars, then you'd be upset. But, as it is, they're only coming for your sons.” - Daniel Berrigan
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Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
No it won't.Neil Edmond wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:00 pm The terminal command inxi -Fxz will give all that info.
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
Agree, try lsmod in the terminal instead.catweazel wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:41 pmNo it won't.Neil Edmond wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:00 pm The terminal command inxi -Fxz will give all that info.
BTW there aren't really any device drivers in Linux as in WIndows. All drivers are kernel modules and as such run in protected mode.
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Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
All of your drivers are contained in the Linux Kernel as such you shouldn't really need to worry about them. Basically, very simplified, when new hardware is released the required drivers are added to the Linux kernel. Sometimes really old 'legacy' hardware drivers are removed. You DO NOT necessarily need to run the latest and greatest Linux kernel and should ONLY install updated versions that are recommended in the software updater. Linux and Linux Mint knows what its doing, trust it, trust the update manager.
The only exceptions to the Linux Kernel drivers are propriety display drivers, usually from nivida or AMD and cpu microcode drivers.
You will find these in the Driver manager, note the difference between 'update manager' and 'driver manager'. Again trust Linux, trust Mint, only install these drivers from the driver manager. It will find the best version for your machine.
So there you go, you can see your installed display and cpu drivers in the driver manager and that's really all you need to 'worry about'.
The only exceptions to the Linux Kernel drivers are propriety display drivers, usually from nivida or AMD and cpu microcode drivers.
You will find these in the Driver manager, note the difference between 'update manager' and 'driver manager'. Again trust Linux, trust Mint, only install these drivers from the driver manager. It will find the best version for your machine.
So there you go, you can see your installed display and cpu drivers in the driver manager and that's really all you need to 'worry about'.
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Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
? sounds a bit to fan boy. unless you are running non kernel drivers like me. The reason for doing so is when when the lm kernel options suck.
comadore, pcDOS, hpux, solaris, vms-vax ....blah blah blah..
Yet I'm still a fn nooob
Yet I'm still a fn nooob
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
Gotta agree with this. The thing is, most new users of Unix like operating systems aren't familiar with the wonders of the 'man' command. For a real treat, open a terminal and type 'man man'. The man pages can give you ways to use the ls command that you never knew.jimallyn wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:33 pmnovice linux user wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:20 pmwhat is the semantic meaning of this command?Neil Edmond wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:00 pm The terminal command inxi -Fxz will give all that info.inxi
is the command,-Fxz
is the options to pass to the command. Open a terminal and enterman inxi
for a complete list and description of the options.
In any event users, take this to heart. The 'man' command is your friend! Use it whenever you need help. Looking for a command? Try apropos or man -k. Hope I haven't gone too far astray. Didn't mean to hijack the answer.
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
I felt so crippled when I used mswindows that I created a bat command to emulate linux man, and many others. Also created alias's for less (more $*), ls (dir $*), cat (type $*), mv (ren $*), etc.tgwilt wrote: ⤴Mon Jun 11, 2018 4:11 pm ...
Gotta agree with this. The thing is, most new users of Unix like operating systems aren't familiar with the wonders of the 'man' command. For a real treat, open a terminal and type 'man man'. The man pages can give you ways to use the ls command that you never knew.
...
Code: Select all
:: Emulate Linux man command (sort of)
@setlocal
@title Manual Page
@if "%1%"=="" @goto help
%1% /?
@goto done
:help
help
:done
@endlocal
less
. It is similar to Window's more
, which is also available on Linux. You can also use man -H
to direct the output to your web browser. They also appear online in many locations.- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
To add to other responses...
Appropriate commands: lspci -v, lsmod, modinfo
I also like hwinfo, and the script inxi.
In LM, System Settings there is the Driver Manager.
KDE has kinfocenter gui. I don't know if there is something similar in Cinnamon/gnome. Although, looking around, hardinfo is a gui that comes up often.
This seems to be a popular question/answer on the Net. There's even one here: viewtopic.php?t=36240
And here:
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/146621/ ... ce-manager
- https://superuser.com/questions/292511/ ... on-utility
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
does every distro uses the same linux kernel?Mattyboy wrote: ⤴Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:17 am All of your drivers are contained in the Linux Kernel as such you shouldn't really need to worry about them. Basically, very simplified, when new hardware is released the required drivers are added to the Linux kernel. Sometimes really old 'legacy' hardware drivers are removed. You DO NOT necessarily need to run the latest and greatest Linux kernel and should ONLY install updated versions that are recommended in the software updater. Linux and Linux Mint knows what its doing, trust it, trust the update manager.
The only exceptions to the Linux Kernel drivers are propriety display drivers, usually from nivida or AMD and cpu microcode drivers.
You will find these in the Driver manager, note the difference between 'update manager' and 'driver manager'. Again trust Linux, trust Mint, only install these drivers from the driver manager. It will find the best version for your machine.
So there you go, you can see your installed display and cpu drivers in the driver manager and that's really all you need to 'worry about'.
Re: where could I find the information of all installed drivers.
No.
There are long term support kernels known as LTS ( good idea to use these, Mint 19 uses one )
There are 'rolling' Kernels, you can consider these the "latest and greatest" but their support time is limited.
Distro's are typically built around a certain kernel series that they are designed to work with.
Mint 18 is built on 4.13
Mint 19 4.15 LTS
4.17 is out, for example, and you may need to run it if you have a cutting edge piece of hardware that needs driver support that's only in that Kernel. See its swings and roundabouts.. you install 4.17 to get your kit going but because Mint 19 wasn't built around it it may break some or all functionality in the OS. Same with graphics drivers, typically, people coming from the Windows environment think, because they've been trained that way, that they need the absolute newest version of software.. storm ahead and install it then cry because its broken, they broke it.
Always run currently supported Kernels being either 'rollling' or 'LTS' and trust the OS, it knows what its doing, its designed that way and that's why the Driver Manager and the Update manager are the only places you should be installing new software, be it display drivers or Kernels.
Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are considered 'stable' and typically will support hardware around six months after its first release. If you want a distro to support absolute cutting edge hardware from day one ( not quite but almost ) then you would probably use something like Arch but be prepared for high maintenance.
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