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Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

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Gene Heskett wrote:
> All video cards should respond to the vesa driver. Trolling 
> thru /var/log/Xorg.0.log with 'less' will answer that question. But vesa 
> has I believe a max resolution of 800x600 so while it will work it will 
> not work to the cards or monitors real capabilities.  There 2 schools of 
> thought, one being to go get from Nvidia, the correct driver for your 
> card.  But that driver does not play nice with applications that need 
> realtime or near realtime kernel performance as it can lock other 
> processes away from the kernel by disabling IRQ responses, sometimes for 
> hundreds of milliseconds in its efforts to give you fast graphics. 
> Nvidia has been kind enough to throw some friendlier code over the legal 
> wall which has allowed the linux folks to write drivers for these cards, 
> and that driver is much nicer to apps that need realtime access to the 
> kernels services. By not hogging the IRQ's.
> 
> This driver, called "nouveau", is available from most all the distro's 
> and can be installed directly from the repo's with the distros favorite 
> package manager as soon as you get a working network connection going.

Vesa, now there's a word I've not come across for a long time. I'm not 
sure what the resolution is it's using but it's certainly better than 
800x600. However, clearly things are not quite right and I'm hoping that 
now I'm online and can use the appropriate software management tools it 
will be sorted out for me. The information above is invaluable because 
now I know what I'm looking for and why.
> 
>> Thanks to Greg and Curt for the info about su - and Gene for the
>> correct syntax for checking a PATH.
> 
> Thank you for the flowers, Richard.

I couldn't get roses, I hope the daffodils will suffice.

R

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USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 15:00 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-07-17 15:40 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2019-07-17 16:10 +0200
    Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 17:10 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2019-07-17 17:10 +0200
        Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 18:40 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-17 18:00 +0200
        Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 18:50 +0200
          Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-18 19:00 +0200
            Re: Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 19:30 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-18 19:00 +0200
            Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 19:50 +0200
              Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-19 01:30 +0200
                Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-19 05:00 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-18 19:10 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-18 08:10 +0200
        Re: USB wireless dongle not detected David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-18 23:50 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-19 00:20 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-17 16:30 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 16:50 +0200

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