Live DVD works fine, but drivers not found after installing

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OK, so I’m an almost complete Linux noob.

I have several really old laptops that I’ve tried various distros on using the “Live DVD”. Each time they boot from the DVD everything is great.

But after I’ve installed them onto the HDD, the video is set to the lowest possible resolution because a driver cannot be found. Frequently the sound and USB get hosed as well.

How can I tell the installer to use the drivers that were loaded in the live demo version?

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I gave up on the old clunkers!

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Sorry, I didn’t see the initial message before. I know the message is set to “resolved,” but I am still not sure why it would do that, and I would like to know what happened.

What kind of GPU is the laptop using? How do you know it is not able to find a driver… was there some kind of error message?

Most laptops use Intel integrated graphics, and the driver for that is built into the kernel. The open source AMD and nVidia (Nouveau) drivers should be installed automatically too.

The Linux kernel image includes nearly all the drivers for things like sound and USB that it will ever need. These would be the same ones in the live session, though the live session may have booted with an older kernel. Did you allow the installer to install updates at the same time that the installation was done? That might have pulled in a newer kernel, which is nearly always a good thing, but clearly something went wrong here.

Dell XPS 13/9310, i5-1135G7/16GB, KDE Neon 6.2
XPG Xenia 15, i7-9750H/32GB & GTX1660ti, Kubuntu 24.04
Acer Swift Go 14, i5-1335U/16GB, Kubuntu 24.04 (and Win 11)

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At this point I can’t answer your questions. I have long since recycled the laptop and I do not recall if it was an AMD or Intel chipset. After a few tries installing and reinstalling Linux, I gave up and decided that it just wasn’t going to work on that old machine. I think it was originally “Designed for Windoze 95”.

Sorry,

Dave

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