Questions tagged [drivers]
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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Launching I2C communication from within ISR
I have an external I2C device that signals when data is ready using a pin.
I want my Linux SBC to trigger I2C transfer routine after GPIO interrupt triggers. How would this be done within kernel space?...
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Debian 13 switch to Nvidia proprietary drivers
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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Sleep or reboot kills sound, switching sound settings back and forth on the same soundcard revives it. Ideas to troubleshoot?
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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diagnose effect of USB device plugged in during startup
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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TX401 Driver Installation Help
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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Automatically check if my Nvidia GPU, CUDA drivers, cuDNN, Pytorch and TensorFlow are all compatible between each other?
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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NVMe: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible
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
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Debian 13 - Nvidia Issue on Boot-up
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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FreeBSD on ThinkPad E590 fans loud and missing drivers for Cannon Point-LP Serial IO UART & MEI controllers
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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NVIDIA proprietary driver "ConnectedMonitor" option doesn't work with headless setup
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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How to setup Manjaro Linux and GRUB menu to switch between open source or proprietary video drivers?
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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Direct Input USB Driver for Linux?
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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Difference between modular and built-in support in the kernel
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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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DHCP requests not reaching router on 5Ghz networks with WCN785x Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) 320MHz 2x2, Qualcomm Technologies
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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Nvidia Proprietary vs Open drivers - differences?
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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