Victor Sudakov wrote: > Hope it's OK to ask an Ubuntu-related question here, after all > Ubuntu is Debian architecturally, isn't it?
Mostly, but Ubuntu changes whatever parts they like. Answers we give are not dependable for Ubuntu, unless someone specifically says "I also know this is true for Ubuntu". > 3. What is a "driver" after all in Linux terms? A kernel module, an > Xserver loadable module? How do you "install a driver"? (in FreeBSD you > either enable/load a kernel module, or make something like > xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so available to the Xserver). For an X11 graphics thing, it's often a combination of: - kernel mode setting support module (.deb) - firmware blob .deb - xserver-org-video-HARDWARE.deb - GLX lib backend (.deb) - special libs and helper utils $ apt search nvidia-kernel libcuda1/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA Driver Library nvidia-driver/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage nvidia-kernel-common/stable 20151021+9 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files nvidia-kernel-dkms/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source nvidia-kernel-source/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module source nvidia-kernel-support/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files nvidia-vdpau-driver/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver -dsr-
