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determining why/how hardware is supported in one distro but not another?
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You can check to see what drivers were compiled as modules or into your kernel by reading the kernel configuration at
/proc/config.gz
or/boot/*config*
There might also be out-of-tree (not included with the kernel) drivers installed as packages on your system but this is very rare outside of like... having an NVIDIA card and running the closed-source vendor driver