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Re: drivers for linux

From Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: drivers for linux
Date 2012-12-20 08:07 +0000
Message-ID <ajfvafF44t4U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2012-12-18, michaelnix775@gmail.com <michaelnix775@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have an hp pavilion 3065dx notebook that i want to install a custom version of suse linux on, the problem is the drivers on the hp website only support windows 7. is there any way i could get them to run on linux

Just to be clear. In Linux the drivers are in the kernel. You do not add
drivers in the Windows sense. 

As other posters have said new hardware is more likely to give you trouble.

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    Re: drivers for linux Lloyd Branum <lcb25@nothere.yahoo.com> - 2012-12-18 05:18 +0000
  Re: drivers for linux ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-12-18 17:44 +0000
    Re: drivers for linux Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-12-18 22:44 -0500
  Re: drivers for linux Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2012-12-19 21:17 +0100
  Re: drivers for linux Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz> - 2012-12-20 08:07 +0000
    Re: drivers for linux JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-12-20 12:55 -0600

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