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I am running Ubuntu 14.10 on a Lenovo T540 laptop.

In addition to information about how to update and maintain the drivers for this laptop I would like general information about how to update this laptop's drivers on any version of Ubuntu (if it differs). Perhaps there's a repo for this? I didn't see anything like this after a few Google searches, and this command doesn't display anything when I run it and I'm still having issues.

It would be helpful to get any information on how to generally go about updating any computer's driver running Ubuntu.

Finally, it would be helpful to get information about generally how to go about updating any computer's drivers running any distro of Linux.

Also, I appreciate stability and reliability would it be better to run 14.04 LTS for these purposes?

These questions: Newb and all that.

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Device drivers in linux are written as kernel modules. Typically if there are updates for special drivers (nvidia like drivers come to mind) you may be able to get binary files and an installation script for your architecture. Otherwise, you will likely get any driver changes (if there were any) when you install kernel updates.

If there are special changes for your specific model sometimes you can find kernel patches. This would be a bit more involved as you would likely end up compiling the kernel then installing the newly compiled version of the kernel.

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