#drivers

mkwadee@diasp.eu

I recently bought a #Wacom #DrawingTablet for my #Laptop. As with other #Hardware or #Peripherals that has been around for a while, there is no need to download and #drivers for it under #GNU #Linux as it's detected automatically and everything just works without any fuss. #Programs such as #Xournal++ detect variations in #PenPressure and draws lines of varying thickness depending upon it. It's taking practice but the results are quite precise in terms of position too. This will make both note taking and calculations during seminars much better.

#Fedora #KDE #KDE6

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#drunk #drivers
DRUNK DRIVERS
MADD

Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a non-profit organization in the United States, Canada and Brazil that seeks to stop drunk driving, support those affected by drunk driving, prevent underage drinking, and strive for stricter impaired driving policy, whether that impairment is caused by alcohol or any other drug.

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#drunk #drivers
October 30, 20
HALLOWEEN DRUNK DRIVERS

About 31% of all traffic crash fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers (with BACs of .08 g/dL or higher). In 2021, there were 13,384 people killed in these preventable crashes. In fact, on average over the 10-year period from 2012-2021, about 10,850 people died every year in drunk-driving crashes.

novimatrem@iviv.hu

What is the best #linux #distro for having the most support and drivers for your hardware?
Say I have a lot of hardware that's a bit strange, or proprietary, and I NEED it to work 100% well.
What would I be best going with?

My experience says that it's probably Ubuntu, but, I'm open to being informed of others that may be better in that regard. Notably for graphics hardware (GPU's), but, also just generally.

#drivers #graphics

drnoam@diasp.org

#Cycle lanes are #good for #drivers and we need more of them, says the #AA

Having more cycle routes would be good for drivers, the head of the AA has said, as the Government considers cutting funds for walking and biking.

Encouraging motorists to take fewer journeys by #car can cut household fuel costs, and reduce congestion on the roads for other drivers, Edmund King said.

“Even though we're a motoring organisation, that doesn't mean you need to use your motor all the time,” Mr King said.

“And journeys under a mile and a half are in many ways the most expensive way to use a car, because your car's not warmed up, you're only going a short distance, and you've got to pay to park.”

The AA says around a fifth of its members are regular cyclists, with more saying they would like to cycle but are put off by a lack of safety and bike paths.

Around half of AA members said they would consider using a #bicycle to replace one or more car journeys per week.

Replacing more car journeys with #walking or #cycling would also help eliminate congestion and make it easier and quicker for drivers to get around, Mr King said.

fr1tz0@diasp.org

Driver doesn't load, shows error code 52 in device manager on Windows 10 x64
If you're automating software and drivers, sometimes it happens that Windows 10 doesn't load a driver. Since MS raised the bar for driver signing and everything security in general to unbelievable heights, there are far less problems with rootkits, but way more with drivers.

Even hardware manufacturers as Nvidia and Intel can't keep up with the current update rate and hey who needs QA when you're at one of these firms anyway and thus, from time to time, un- or wrongly signed non-production beta drivers are being published for end consumers.

You're downloading driver packages, extract them, shove them upon your test share, import them into your endpoint management server system without a problem, automate them and deploy them. Dism grabs them and imports them into the local driver store. After OSD is done, system is being patched and software is being installed, all is good. Machine ships to the end customer, user logs in. OS activates each and every security subsystem that EFI, secureboot, Driverguard etc pp. provides and loads up the drivers in the store.

Inf is readable, cab file signature is A-OK, loading driver but oh my what's that, one of the 50 driver libraries or SYS files is not signed properly, a cert in the chain is too old or there is no CA certificate because someone at Intel signed the libraries with a cert published by 'Microsoft Media' certificate used in Windows Vista (an OS published in 2007 A.D.) to sign the driver libraries. In the year 2021. Congrats, you now have n machines out there in the home offices without WLAN & without a graphics driver. Best wishes from Intel (one more reason why I prefer AMD).

There are two solutions to avoid this: either you check each and every file of each and every driver you want to use before importing & deploying them. This means that you'll check millions of files. Or you just trust the manufacturer / distributor who provides the drivers, import them and fix if any errors occur. This is what 99% of the sysadmins do and what MS recommends.

If however you want to check the driver files before importing them, here is a powershell one-liner to recursively check all binaries in the current path for non-valid signatures. It outputs any binaries in the search path which are not signed properly.

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | where {$_.extension -in ".dll", ".exe", ".sys" } | Where { ! $_.PSIsContainer } | Get-AuthenticodeSignature | Where-Object {$_.status -ne "Valid"} | Select-Object status, path

Have fun, stay healthy.
Fritz

#windows #drivers #driver #admin #hardware #cert #signature

anonymiss@despora.de

#Microsoft have signed multiple rootkits (which allow #kernel #drivers) and reach out to a remote #IP.

source: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1405805536403243009

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#Windows #security #backdoor #vulnerability #fail #privacy #problem #news #software #danger #warning #rootkit #malware