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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you running Wayland on your Arch setup? There could be an extra layer of compatibility issue there as opposed to X11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No to wayland.

I have used arch-based distros. They tend towards better support but not universally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think you may be mistaking what I meant? Wayland is a display server protocol, like Xorg, which is independent of the Arch base system. Depending on your hardware, kernel level support may be available and installed, while your display server software may be the component having problems and not the kernel or other system configurations. Just an idea to poke at, some setups and hardware support can break at different points based on the way you've set up your system with associated packages/dependencies.