12-19-2017, 03:15 PM
While dealing with broken packages and many old kernels, I made the mistake of using the -F Autoremove command, and on rebooting saw that I had lost most of the drivers to an Acer laptop: the video, audio and network was absent, and possibly others. Going to LL's Drivers utility showed nothing available. A Synaptics search for "driver" also produced nothing.
I know what to do in Windows - go to Acer.com and find the driver using a machine with a connection, download to a USB stick and install on the broken machine. But how does one do this with Linux? I ended up reinstalling LL from scratch. That's not a very big deal, but I would like to know a better way to deal with missing drivers.
Thanks.
I know what to do in Windows - go to Acer.com and find the driver using a machine with a connection, download to a USB stick and install on the broken machine. But how does one do this with Linux? I ended up reinstalling LL from scratch. That's not a very big deal, but I would like to know a better way to deal with missing drivers.
Thanks.