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alkapwn3d

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Registered: 2020-06-15

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How do I find and install these missing drivers on my laptop?

I would like help with installing the following missing drivers.
Most of these missing drivers such as Keyboard Controller, HP Webcam worked automatically with other distros so I know its possible.

# hwinfo
unknown:
                       FPU
                       DMA controller
                       PIC
                       Keyboard controller
                       Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller
                       Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
                       Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem
  /dev/input/event7    Suyin HP Webcam
                       Validity Sensors VFS301 Fingerprint Reader

# system information
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0
Kernel Version: 5.7.2-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 3.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: How do I find and install these missing drivers on my laptop?

The drivers are almost certainly already included in the kernel, check the dmesg(8) output to see what's going wrong.

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alkapwn3d

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Registered: 2020-06-15

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Re: How do I find and install these missing drivers on my laptop?

dmesg output

the link above show the output for dmesg.
I dont really know how to make sense of this though in order to figure out my issue

Last edited by alkapwn3d (2020-06-15 08:57:20)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: How do I find and install these missing drivers on my laptop?

Looks like the webcam and keyboard are recognised and supported:

[    1.970078] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
[...]
[    3.250217] usb 2-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=064e, idProduct=f209, bcdDevice= 2.01
[    3.250221] usb 2-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.250224] usb 2-1.5: Product: HP Webcam
[    3.250226] usb 2-1.5: Manufacturer: SuYin
[    3.250228] usb 2-1.5: SerialNumber: HF0315-J311-OV01-VH-R02.00.01
[...]
[    4.488013] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device HP Webcam (064e:f209)
[    4.519159] uvcvideo 2-1.5:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 2 was not initialized!
[    4.519163] uvcvideo 2-1.5:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized!
[    4.519269] input: HP Webcam: HP Webcam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.0/input/input10
[    4.519384] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    4.519386] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

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