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Subject: Re: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.51.02.run
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From: % <pursent100@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:53:19 -0700
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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