How much support does Slackware have for drivers?

abefroman · 01-08-2010, 03:08 PM

How much support does Slackware have for drivers?

I have an Asus motherboard, and the onboard sound doesn't work with Ubuntu, and also it won't recognize my HP printer.

Would I have better luck with Slackware?

pixellany · 01-08-2010, 03:25 PM

To first order, support of drivers has nothing to do with the distro. You simply need a driver that is compatible with the HW and the kernel. With the recent kernels, I have only seen ONE situation where a kernel change broke a driver (nvidia). Fix was simple---just recompile the driver.

For printers, it's a question of which driver package you install----plus for HP, you may need the HPLIP package. For printers in particular, the choice of distro is really irrelevant.

Nille_kungen · 01-09-2010, 04:02 AM

It wouldn't hurt if you supplied information on the hardware that doesn't work.
What printer is it and what sound card? (pci-id for the sound card)

samac · 01-09-2010, 05:09 AM

I have an HP F2180 all in one printer that is no longer supported by HPLIP, however it works perfectly with the latest Slackware version of hplip. All you need to do is get hold of the ppd file eg. hp-deskjet_f2100_series-hpijs.ppd.gz and add it to the directory /usr/share/cups/model/HP/

samac

onebuck · 01-09-2010, 07:50 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by abefroman

How much support does Slackware have for drivers?

I have an Asus motherboard, and the onboard sound doesn't work with Ubuntu, and also it won't recognize my HP printer.

Would I have better luck with Slackware?

Details!

'How to Ask Questions the Smart Way' would be something you should read to formulate better queries.