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A device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.

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I'm trying to get Nvidia proprietary drivers (for RTX5070 Ti) working on a fresh Debian (13.2) install. Starting point: live USB with Debian 13.2 After installing Debian on SSD and enabling non-free ...
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Problem: Sleep or restart kills all sound from the system. Workaround: Using the system settings, switching soundcard's profile from Pro Audio to Analog Stereo Duplex and port to Line Out / headphones ...
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I have a PS/2 adaptor with a retro mouse and keyboard connected and Debian 12 is doing something different when it is booted up with or without that plugged into a USB port. Either way, the keyboard ...
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I am attempting to install the driver for the TX401 10G NIC. I have the card installed in the computer and running lspci lists the device: 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Aquantia Corp. AQtion AQC113 ...
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I'd like to know if my Nvidia GPU, CUDA drivers, cuDNN, Pytorch and TensorFlow are all compatible between each other ahead of time instead of getting some less explicit error when running code such as:...
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Suddenly, with no obvious trigger, my NVMe drive went down and /dev/nvme0n1p1 disappeared: [136975.461964] nvme nvme0: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0xffffffff, PCI_STATUS=0xffff [136975.461978]...
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I am keep getting error on my machine: NVRM: mmapAllocWithSecInfo: RMAPI_GPU_LOCK_INTERNAL alloc requested without holding the RMAPI lock My machine details: ThinkPad P14s Gen 4, 32GB Ram, NVIDIA RTX ...
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I'm trying to run FreeBSD on a ThinkPad E590 (daily driver currently running Void Linux). After installing FreeBSD some devices appear to be missing drivers/firmware and the laptop fans run loudly ...
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From NVIDIA documentation: Option "ConnectedMonitor" "string" Allows you to override what the NVIDIA kernel module detects is connected to your graphics card. This may be useful, ...
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Manjaro Linux installation image has 2 options on GRUB menu: setparams 'Boot with open source drivers' 'x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2587 quiet ...
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I am trying to read a DirectInput Device under Linux. lsusb: Bus 003 Device 006: ID 046d:c219 Logitech, Inc. F710 Gamepad [DirectInput Mode] sudo dmesg: [13919.233231] usb 3-2.2: new full-speed USB ...
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Context When I was configuring a wireless interface support for my Wi-Fi card, I used the following page on Linux Wireless documentation website. It is said that I should enable Qualcomm Technologies ...
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I've got a new machine with an MSI MAG Z790 Tomohawk Max Wifi (MS-7E25) motherboard running Mint 22.1 (on kernel 6.14.0-29-generic), which has a Qualcomm WCN785x Wi-Fi 7 network card built in. lspci ...
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I work primarily on a laptop with Nvidia 4070 card (Ada Lovelace codename), and not so long ago, I noticed out of nowhere appeared some Open drivers as an alternative to Proprietary, and what's more, ...
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If I'm working on contributing to a Bluetooth driver, but don't have the actual chip available. How can I test functionality and debug during development without the physical hardware? Does anyone ...
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I have a 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint Xia based on Ubuntu 24.04. I checked the adapter - 14e4:43a0 - and confirmed via this guide to install bcmwl-kernel-source. I downloaded the driver on another ...
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I have a HP mouse. Recently, I have been practicing implementing the device driver. Instead of using the hid-generic driver, I would like to use my customized driver for the Bluetooth device. I don't ...
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This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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Just received a Sager NHx0DB,DE w/ i7-10870H CPU & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile GPU. Cinnamon Mint 22.1 Xia was preinstalled by Freegeek.org a no-support community non-profit refurbisher. I ...
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I installed Don't Starve through steam, and this appeared (https://i.sstatic.net/EjSGUPZP.png) It looks like there is a trouble with gpu drivers, i had same problem with kitty terminal, but solved it ...
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I was reinstalling nvidia driver on my Debian 12, but couldn't get nvidia-detect working: it is installed and can be seen from apt list but the command is not found. $ apt search nvidia-detect nvidia-...
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I am having a conflict with third party moxa driver mxupcie and the default linux 8250_moxa which is compiled in. I have been following this thread but still having issues. -bash-4.2$ lspci -vvv -s8a:...
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I am working on a project using a yocto build for a compulab module for the imx8 processor. It contains a ft5x06 touchscreen, connected to using a custom out-of-tree usb-i2c bridge module. This all ...
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I have some questions regarding the hid-generic and implementing my own driver. Below is the hid-generic source code. hid-generic.c source code My questions are: How does the hid-generic driver ...
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The Volume Scroll Wheel I am talking about in the title of the question is indicated on the image below. The wheel's functionality is the following: when you scroll up - volume increases; scroll down ...
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I am working on the hid device driver for my mouse on raspberry pi. I notice that the hid-generic driver will support my mouse by checking the dmesg. Therefore, I would like to disable this driver, ...
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I have Getac tablet (UX10G3) which having inbuilt sensor like gyro, als, accelerometer and magnetometer connected over Intel Sensor Hub. These sensors are working perfectly in Windows 11 and i have ...
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We are two FreeBSD lovers and a stubborn system administrators. We are trying to project a phone based on FreeBSD for several months. Emanuel Vadot and Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen have enabled the ...
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If you all look at the enclosed image above, you can see that I've merged four hard drives into one volume group called MQ. I did this in order to try to have my system hard drive (KINGSTON SUV400S) ...
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I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12 with the following specs: $ inxi -Fzxx System: Kernel: 6.14.9-300.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1....
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recently I have installed Mint 22.1 (first experience with Linux distribution) and as many users I am experiencing a problem with my Wifi Network (BCM43142,14e4:4365 rev 01), too. I am aware, that ...
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I have a module who open mmc blockdevice, inspired of block2mtd.c driver on linux 5.1. It works successfully when my driver is as module and "modprobe" after kernel started. But it fail when ...
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I am trying to configure my Blackmagic DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder to work with OBS on Arch Linux. On Windows, I could go to their website, install their Desktop Video 14.5 Program. Once the drivers ...
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I am experiencing significant performance and data loss issue with the AXI UART16550 on our Xilinx FPGA. Initially, the device operated without any problems using legacy interrupts. However, after ...
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I switched from rtx 2080ti to rtx5080, I have dual boot system, windows works fine, ubuntu black screen, in recovery mode I see that it's stuck in "loading ramdisk". I couldn't even boot ...
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I'm configuring a server with linux Arch using Manjaro (I know, not ideal, but I have my valid reasons). The issue at hand is that I'm unable to change the resolution of the display from the ...
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I am building custom game controllers on Linux that use the i2c bus present in video ports such as HDMI, dvi, and VGA, on standard PC hardware (x86_64). I would like to verify my current i2c bus speed ...
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I have a Dell Latitude 7440 with an integrated FHD RGB + IR Camera, but there are no drivers. It's an IPU6/MIPI Intel camera. sudo lshw -C multimedia *-multimedia:0 UNCLAIMED description: ...
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On a fresh install of fedora, both my monitor and laptop screen were working perfectly fine, then after installing nvidia drivers, they installed successfully, but my secondary monitor connected via ...
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I am currently running the most recent update of Debian bookworm (which I think is built on Linux 6.1.0.32-amd64 or Linux-6.1.129-1, that's what uname -r returns). I have been trying to install a set ...
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I was writing a simple character device driver. There was an issue in the cleanup function, cdev_del was called before device_destroy, Which means I deleted the cdev structure before deleting the ...
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I'm following Altera's guide for running Linux on the DE1-SoC board, specifically section 5.3 - Installing the Driver. The instructions provided in the guide are for a Windows host, and I'm on a linux ...
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I have a TX20U nano wifi6 module, which uses the Realtek RTL8832BU chip. I downloaded the driver from github, and it worked fine on a desktop computer with debian12 (patched kernel 6.1). Then I used ...
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When setting USB3 in device tree, I've seen in dts of reference boards (for example DTS for zcu102-RevA) different parameters for setting PHY. there are two parameters in dts for USB: phys = <&...
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I am using a PC to control a robot at 1000Hz. My machine has Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Linux 6.7 patched with PREEMPT_RT. The machine communicates with the robot via UDP trough a point-to-point Ethernet ...
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To reach the point I am at I have Installed debian with xfce made my self a sudoer added deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware to the sources list Now ...
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My Brother HL-110 printer is not printing anymore. There's no output corresponding to the printer in lsusb and in http://localhost:631/printers/HL-1110 it says Waiting for printer to become available. ...
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I am trying to use an NVIDIA GPU in a server that is running red-hat linux. As it is a remote server, I do not have sudo access, so inorder to be able to use sudo to add / remove packages, I am using ...
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I am not a total Linux noob, but I do have some knowledge gaps (particularly when it comes to drivers) and I'm kind of at a loss for how to proceed. I tried posting this to the Raspberry Pi forum, but ...
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So I have nvidia drivers installed but nvidia gpu is set on offload. How to activate it in X11???
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