Re: Need for the nVidia Driver

From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:27:17 UTC 
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:33 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:33:04 -0400
> Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:
>
> > Probably a dumb question, but I will ask it anyway. I have a NVIDIA
> > graphics card install on my system. If I never run "X" or any "GUI",
> > does it make any sense to install the NVIDIA driver?
>
>         If you do it will probably switch the console mode to a high
> resolution one with lots of tiny text which you can change but 80x25 isn't
> coming back. It will also provide access to the CUDA APIs if you want to
> use
> the DSP for anything.
>

All of the above is 100% false:
      * I have nvidia-driver installed since I use X
      * It does not change the text/console mode resolution
      * CUDA is not directly available by decision of nVidia (something
about not mixing closed source code with open source code)


>         You don't need it otherwise and won't miss it.
>

It does absolutely nothing useful outside of X.

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org