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Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run

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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:53:19 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<01mdnWqhwNj5UZv1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com>:

> vallor wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:48:10 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>> <9q6cnbqpvriCIJv1nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>:
>> 
>>> vallor wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:33:57 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>> <ioidncTqmowrNpv1nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> vallor wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:17:00 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> in <2gadnSM96OTP2Jv1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> vallor wrote:
>>>>>>>> (I usually mention which NVIDIA binary blob I'm using, but it
>>>>>>>> hasn't changed from the release drivers for several iterations.)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> so you broke that too
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing is "broken".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I still had to "skip-module-load" like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run --skip-module-load
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Something to do with module dependencies.)
>>>>>>
>>>>> and you use this application to do what ... exactly
>>>>
>>>> The video drivers are used to drive the video.
>>>>
>>>> Without the video drivers, you won't have graphics for your gui, or
>>>> to to play kick-ass games like Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers.
>>>>
>>> didn't your computer come with video drivers
>> 
>> Very, very old ones.
>> 
>> Anybody using a discrete video card is most likely keeping up with
>> video drivers.  NVIDIA and RADEON are two such examples.
>> 
> 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.

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  Re: Linux 6.14.3 % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-20 07:46 -0700
    Re: Linux 6.14.3 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-20 15:09 +0000
      Re: Linux 6.14.3 % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-20 09:06 -0700
      Re: Linux 6.14.3 Raymond Rayson <ray@nah.thx> - 2025-04-20 17:31 +0000
        Re: Linux 6.14.3 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-21 12:31 +0000
          Re: Linux 6.14.3 % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 06:17 -0700
            NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run (was: Re: Linux 6.14.3) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-21 20:28 +0000
              Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 13:33 -0700
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-21 21:20 +0000
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 14:48 -0700
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-21 22:29 +0000
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 15:53 -0700
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-22 00:48 +0000
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 17:55 -0700
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-22 01:04 +0000
                Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-21 21:02 -0400
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