• bioemerl@kbin.social
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    No, that’s about how it is on Linux.

    Some drivers just work. Others? Absolute pain in the ass. If it doesn’t work on first boot you’re probably screwed.

    Source: my laptops audio still doesn’t work with Linux.

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      That’s because laptop (and some desktop motherboard) manufacturers love to cut costs wherever they can so they end up using some weird non standard sound card from Billy Bob’s discount computer parts because they know they can require the use of drivers to band aid over the shitty hardware with a software fix.

      Then when using Linux it tends to either not work or have shit sound until some kind soul adds in a config file for the devices sound card.

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        It looks like the OP was trying to shorthand (not show entirely)
        ->Just updating Ubtuntu to see if it fixes the issue
        ->cloning a github repo and then trying to build a driver themselves
        ->Checking with modprobe to see if it worked (I don’t remember the command clearly, I’ve only actually done this once like 2 years ago)

        The syntax error at the end is probably more for dramatic effect and would’ve occurred when trying to make the repo. But at the bare minimum using Apt to update->upgrade your distro would update a driver if it was already installed and just outdated.

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        Intel something or other. I had it working at one point but it broke again shortly after, some update unset some settings or something.