Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:55:23 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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vallor wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:53:19 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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vallor wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:48:10 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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vallor wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:33:57 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote
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vallor wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:17:00 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com>
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vallor wrote:

(I usually mention which NVIDIA binary blob I'm using, but it
hasn't changed from the release drivers for several
iterations.)
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so you broke that too

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Nothing is "broken".
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BTW, there's a new set of drivers from the NVIDIA web site -- a
new release driver and a new beta.  I'm now running the beta.
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I still had to "skip-module-load" like this:
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./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run --skip-module-load
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(Something to do with module dependencies.)
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and you use this application to do what ... exactly

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The video drivers are used to drive the video.
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Without the video drivers, you won't have graphics for your gui, or
to to play kick-ass games like Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers.
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didn't your computer come with video drivers

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Very, very old ones.
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Anybody using a discrete video card is most likely keeping up with
video drivers.  NVIDIA and RADEON are two such examples.
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and this is to play a game

 
That is one use of video drivers.
 
Another -- which you are probably more familiar with -- is to display a
gui for drooling over Usenet posts, Youtube,
and whatever else you fancy to look at.
 

but i don't use anything fancy to do that ,
in fact i don't go to posted youtubes

Unposted youtubes are more fun, anyway.

ObLinux:

Should mention that with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.133.07 and
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02 Steam has been throwing an error:

MESA: error: DRM_VIRTGPU_RESOURCE_CREATE_BLOB failed with Invalid argument
MESA: error: Failed to create virtgpu AddressSpaceStream
MESA: error: vulkan: Failed to get host connection

Doesn't seem to affect gaming, but it's annoying.  Might have something
to do with my changes to my Linux .config, where I set some DRM modules
to "y" (add to kernel) instead of "m" (build as module).  Also some
related errors in dmesg.  Will have to investigate.

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