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Managing kernel drivers

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Managing kernel drivers

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- In some cases, you will need to take care of drivers in Linux. Now what is the issue with kernel drivers? Well, the issue is that open source drivers are available for most hardware devices, but the open source drivers don't always offer the best support for your driver. And for that reason, in some cases, you will need to enable third party drivers. To do so, you need to make sure that you have added the restricted and multiverse repositories. You can do so by using sudo add-apt-repository. So use add-apt-repository for restricted, as well as multiverse, so that you get access to drivers that are not necessarily part of the open source ecosystem. Next, you can use sudo-apt-update to make sure that your local machine is using the most up-to-date indexes from these new repositories and it knows about the drivers that have become available. And then you can use sudo reboot, which makes the system ready for installing them. Now, once you have completed that procedure, you use…

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