Questions tagged [drivers]
A device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.
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Roll back HP Universal Print Driver
I recently installed the latest PostScript HP Universal Print Driver on my Windows print server, but it turned out that the driver was buggy. I reverted the server virtual machine to a snapshot taken ...
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trouble with Oracle Sun SAS 6GB/s pci-e drivers
I got a new card for my server, a Sun SAS card (SG-XPCIESAS-GEN2-Z), and now I cannot get it to work. I tried many LSI drivers, many Adaptec drivers, but none work, some even crash.
Card P/N is ...
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How does the mlx5 driver use the IOVA generated by IOMMU as DMA address?
I have enabled IOMMU on the physical machine. I expect the RDMA NIC to use the IOVA allocated by the IOMMU module for DMA after enabling IOMMU. However, in reality, the RDMA NIC does not use the IOVA ...
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How do I edit a PPD file for CUPS?
I have a networked printer (Canon iP8720) and it mostly works just fine out of the box with CUPS on Kubuntu 22.10. However the printer is capable of borderless printing, higher resolution than the ...
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How do I fix amdgpu and amdgpu-dkms packages not installing?
I'm trying to install the amdgpu package and it throws a bunch of errors:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were ...
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RHEL server + what is the meaning of the kernel messages about Hung TX queue XX
We have 524 RHEL machines. in our Hadoop cluster ( all machines are DELL HW )
all machines are RHEL 7.2 version (old kernel version)
uname -r
3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
last week we seen the following ...
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Windows Upgrade Removed Tag in Service Definition in Registry
We noticed that after upgrading Windows in place (from 2016->2019), our custom driver entries in the registry lost their "tag" key. The tag key is necessary for the driver to load upon ...
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How to install Wifi dervers Realtek RTL8723BE/RTL8188EE 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Drivers in cent os 7
i was using Realtek RTL8723BE/RTL8188EE 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Drivers
when I was using windows but after centos installation, my wifi adapter is not showing please anyone help me with this?
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Is it possible to disable and re-enable on-board PCI devices in Linux?
So as the title suggests, Is there a way I can disable and re-enable PCI devices or on-board devices on Linux using Terminal like the disable and enable device functions in Windows' Device Manager. I ...
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How to pass driver parameters via dkms?
I am trying build/install a driver via dkms. I have successfully started the driver with its default parameters but not sure how to add optional params?
For example to install the driver using insmod ...
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how can I list all static builtin drivers in kernel, such as pcieport and pciehp?
with lspci I can see things like:
Slot: 00:02.0
Class: PCI bridge [0604]
Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. [1b36]
Device: QEMU PCIe Root port [000c]
Driver: pcieport
In dmesg I can see pcieport 0000:00:02.0: ...
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NVIDIA GPU driver not functioning properly - Code 12
I had installed Windows 10 as an additional OS using bootcamp on my MacBook Pro, later I connected an eGPU to my macbook pro's thunderbolt port. I am able to see the display adapter for my NVIDIA GPU, ...
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Raid 5, drivers switched to offline mode
We used server Supermicro and raid controller avago megaraid sas 9341-8i + 8 disk 12 gigabytes.
Raid 5 was configured on it for 2 months. All discs are new, the server and controller are 4 years old.
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Do nvidia drivers need reinstalling after changing memory slots on Linux (UEFI)?
I've changed the memory slots (took out a set of 3x32Gb and put a fresh set of 3x32Gb of ECC type) on a Linux computer with Ubuntu 22.04 and upon reboot, the nvidia-smi command complained that the ...
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How can I get Duralabel printer driver working on Ubuntu 22.04?
We use Duralabel printers from Graphic Products for some of our labeling which works fine on Windows workstations however is unsupported for Linux. Their tech support has provided a PPD driver and ...
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Open Source Utility to send ATA Commands from WinPE
I know there are Linux utility to sent commands to drives, like hdparm.
Is there no Windows equivalent to do so? I understand it's only accessible through WinPE
as per https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/...
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Windows Server 2016 Unable to Print To HP T830 Plotter
Server: Windows Server 2016
Plotter: HP DesignJet T830
Drivers: using the DesignJet T830 MFP PCL 3 drivers (Ver 61.183)
Issue: No output when sending print jobs to the plotter, am getting the ...
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ixgbe driver gets loaded twice at boot overriding my modprobe.d parameters
I have installed ixgbe as a dkms module on my Debian server following this guide: https://gist.github.com/kslimani/6c289105fd21033c87d3ae378e793b69
Then, I had created a file: /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe....
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Installing virtio drivers on windows server 2016
I am trying to install virtio drivers on a VPS I bought and i installed a windows server on via an unintended method. But I am stuck... I don't have an internet connection to the server. So I cant ...
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How to connect/reboot to PC without monitor or remote access? Accidentally enabled X11 and can't undo it
I recently tried setting up an Intel NUC for remote access but it required a display to be connected -- I am using Ubuntu 18.04 (maybe 20.04, I can't check). So I installed the X11 dummy driver ...
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Fixing bad network drivers on 2019 DC S2D installation
I am helping to troubleshoot an existing Windows failover cluster on Windows Server 2019 Data Center. The cluster is set up to use Storage Spaces Direct (http://aka.ms/s2d) but there are problems ...
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Virtualizing Solaris 2.5.1 (1995)
Posting here instead of unix exchange because although unix is the suject, this should apply to other non-nix OSs.
Our development team has been asked to automate some tasks that happen to interact ...
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Offline install of all win 10 printer drivers
I want to download the whole set of printer drivers that Microsoft does not distribute anymore since Windows 7 and install/deploy them without windows update or internet access.
I am aware that I can ...
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Printer Management
On our network we are getting an error every time we attempt to add a printer or sometimes print to printers. The error states that new drivers are needed to installed to print however we are using ...
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PTP support for RTL8125B-CG NIC in Ubuntu 20.04
I have an RTL8125B-CG NIC which, from what I gather from their product page, has hardware support for PTP. However, sudo ethtool -T does not detect any HW timestamping capabilities.
I've tried with ...
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How to run service after kernel module is loaded
I have been breaking my head over this the last few hours. On one of my machines the intel-rapl-msr driver is buggy and reloading it fixes the issue. I thought I could trivially create a service that ...
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Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS - Installing nvidia & cuda installs gnome as well
I have a GPU server which requires cuda for example for machine learning tasks.
unfortunately, as soon as I install the NVIDIA drivers and cuda, apparently a variant of gnome is installed as well. ...
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Force-unload or reset a crashed linux driver
What options do I have to hard-reset a linux driver?
I have a problem with my USB-connected dvb tuners. They crash from time to time with a stack trace in the kernel log and disappear from the device ...
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HP 1/8 G2 medium changer not detected in Oracle Linux 8
I have a HP 1x8 G2 Autoloader that connected to a SAN switch, on my VMware environment I have an Oracle Linux that should work with the tape.
The problem is after connecting tape to VM, medium changer ...
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Dpinst is showing the UI screen even after sending silent parameters, how to fix that?
The OS version:
The Dpinst window I am seeing:
The command I am using to suppress the window, but not working here.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\IA\Eclipse\FTDI Drivers\dpinst64.exe&...
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ixgbe eth0: initiating reset due to tx timeout and ixgbe eth0: Reset adapter
Server interfaces are flapping sometimes. It happens randomly. We are getting below logs in dmesg and similar logs are being captured in syslog as well.
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OS-Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
4.9.0-12-...
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How to troubleshoot missing hardware functionality in Win 10 PE WDS boot environment
I am working to inject drivers into our Windows 10 PE WDS boot environment. First hurdle was getting the correct NIC driver installed, but now that is done I am hitting a wall in getting the touchpad ...
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Install not signed driver in Windows 2019 with no prompt
I want to install the not signed driver in the Azure DevOps pipeline (windows-2019 image).
Driver is in the form of the .inf file. On the local machine i am using the following command:
pnputil -i -a ...
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Linux module load
I have one question one of my Linux box which is RHEL 7.8 the module joydev is loaded on one server but not on the other server.
Server A => Module joydev is loaded successfully
Server b => ...
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Batch: How to remove a network printer //server/printer if V4 driver is installed?
All Windows client computers use a network printer //server/printer with V4 driver. The current version of the driver on the server side is V3. I want to remove the V4 printer and reinstall the ...
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Print jobs are getting stuck in the queues of the printers on the Print server (Windows server 2016)
Print jobs are getting stuck in the queues of the printers on the Print server (Windows server 2016)
The printout are being printed only after the affected printers are physically restarted.
The ...
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Windows Server 2003 not trusting any device driver (including native ones)
Background:
Several legacy Windows Server 2003 systems need to be migrated from VMware to Azure.
Yes, we know they have a legacy OS. Yet we have to keep them running. And this is (at least partly) ...
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is it ok to combine one machine with network driver ixgbe and other machine with network driver i40e
we have two rhel server redhat 7.6 and redhat 7.2
on the first server 7.2 , the network driver is driver: ixgbe
on the second server rhel 7.6 the network driver is driver: i40e
dose redhat Linux ...
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revive an old QLogic IBA7322 Infiniband card on CentOS8.2
I have a few HP Blades Gen7 equipped with QLogic Infiniband cards IBA7322 which I would like to use with CentOS 8. The problem I have is that I cannot find the right drivers for them. All the ...
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pcie SR-IOV driver howto
I am trying to know how linux PCIE NIC SR-IOV work.
I am using a Unbuntu with Intel 82599 NIC as a host. Under NIC driver directory(ixgbe) in linux Kernel, there is a file named "ixgbe_sriov.c&...
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Running Ubuntu Server with GUI Desktop Environment | Dell PowerEdge R710 II
Let me start off by saying I’m completely new to using / running servers and I’m currently 2nd year CS & Business student in DCU, Ireland.
I recently developed a program for automating sales ...
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Azure VM Disk Driver Error
we are experiencing a strange issue with our Azure VMs.
In the Windows Event Log we get the following Issue:
Event-ID 11
The driver detected a controller error on
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
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Can i install a driver in Windows Server Core docker container?
We have an app that requires a driver. As an experiment and for testing purposes, we thought to deploy it using a docker image based on mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1903-amd64. The host ...
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Adding a driver from a p5p package during Solaris 11.4 installation
I'm trying to install Solaris x86 11.4 on a machine that requires an additional driver to access its drives. The driver is provided in a p5p-package and I have tried adding the driver before starting ...
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Getting network UNCLAIMED in Debian 8.3
When i check for lshw , i get following result
user@user# lshw -c network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: I210 Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel ...
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Should I install Microsoft Redistributables not marked as "Supported"?
I have a requirement to upgrade one of our Operating Systems from Windows Server 2012R2 to Windows Server 2016. The hosted application requires numerous ODBC Drivers that in turn require a bunch of ...
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Is there a way to have two versions of the same Adaptec RAID driver installed on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5?
We have an older Adaptec 5805 RAID controller on our CentOS 5 server. (I added RHEL 5 to the question because of the similarity in these Linux distributions.) An Adaptec 8805 controller was recently ...
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Hyper-V 2019 Server network drivers
What OS driver is used for Hyper-V 2019 server (host) network adapters?
Is it a Windows 2012 Server or Windows 10 driver?
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Installing drivers into docker image for kubernetes deployment
I am accessing a USB Card reader on an Ubuntu 18.04 node. Here is what is installed on the Ubuntu 18.04 node to access the USB Card reader:
sudo apt-get install pcscd
sudo apt-get install pcsc-...
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Find previous driver VERSION if 'Rollback driver strong name' missing
I've tackling a random BSOD issue & I updated some drivers (with Dell Command Update), but I forget to note the previous driver versions which will be helpful to know should the issue re-occur. ...
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