Working with hardware devices

Credits and License

Table of Contents

Restricted drivers
Why are some drivers restricted?
Enabling a restricted driver
Disabling a restricted driver
Disks and partitions
Checking disk capacity
Partitioning a device
Formatting a partition
What is formatting?
What is a filesystem?
What is a Partition?
Mounting and Unmounting Devices
Laptops
Suspending and hibernating laptops
Power management settings
Touchpads
Finding laptop testing reports
Mice and keyboards
Mice and other pointing devices
Keyboards
Touchpads and graphics tablets

Your computer consists of a number of connected devices, which are collectively known as computer hardware.

Ubuntu normally configures your hardware automatically, but there may be occasions when you need to make changes to hardware settings yourself. This section provides information on tools which can be used to configure your hardware.