Installing drivers on Linux Mint?

Wagon

Have a Dell inspiron mini 12". Trying to download and install drivers for it. The graphics card is the first one i need because it'll make things easier to follow. It's a Intel Graphics Media 945GSE/GM965 according to dell. How do i go about installing it? I've only been using Mint for about 1 hour so aplogies for any ignorance.

Stuxnet

best thing for any ubuntu based distro off hand, is run the system updater first,
then go to hardware in system>pref or admin cant remember which, it should do a scan and automatically download for you

Wagon

BOBBY wrote: »

best thing for any ubuntu based distro off hand, is run the system updater first,
then go to hardware in system>pref or admin cant remember which, it should do a scan and automatically download for you

System updater didn't do anything. Clicked refresh and nothing popped up. Where is the option to scan for hardare?

Stuxnet

Wagon wrote: »

System updater didn't do anything. Clicked refresh and nothing popped up. Where is the option to scan for hardare?

well it should tons of system updates to be downloaded, are you online ?

Wagon

BOBBY wrote: »

well it should tons of system updates to be downloaded, are you online ?

Oops.

PogMoThoin

Hold on, linux has the drivers for most devices, its not like Windows. If You can see stuff on the screen than You have a driver

Wagon

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Hold on, linux has the drivers for most devices, its not like Windows. If You can see stuff on the screen than You have a driver

I dont think so. The visuals are rubbish even when the fancy visuals are turned off so it must be working off the VGA card. It needs a seperate driver to run on Windows so it has to be the same for Linux.

BopNiblets

Try Hardware Drivers in Administration.

Wagon

Did the system updater, it started installing all the updated and then crashed and stopped them completely. Hardware devices did nothing to detect them. Any thoughts? I'm well lost.

BopNiblets

Try the Mint forums, quick search of dell mini 12 gives me this:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=32796&p=189097&hilit=dell+mini+12#p189097