Dan Ritter wrote: > 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
I see. In FreeBSD they just put all the stuff into one package, like /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-390/ containing everything from kernel modules to helper utils. > > > nvidia-driver/stable 418.152.00-1 amd64 > NVIDIA metapackage Do you mean that if I install the metapackage: `apt install nvidia-driver-390` this should be sufficient? No GUI tweaking? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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