I’ve already made a post about this, I made the switch from an Nvidia GPU to an AMD one and I was wondering if I needed to install anything extra. I’ve heard the drivers are included inside the kernel but how do I ensure that it’s installed?
I’ve already made a post about this, I made the switch from an Nvidia GPU to an AMD one and I was wondering if I needed to install anything extra. I’ve heard the drivers are included inside the kernel but how do I ensure that it’s installed?
Is that all?
Coming from Windows, where you should either nuke the install or use DDU in safe mode when changing vendors, for smooth sailing to paradise.
On Linux the drivers are built into the kernel. Nvidia is one of the outliers for having drivers you need to install in the first place.
Additional tools like VAAPI/VDPAU may need a package or two, but the basic graphics acceleration should just work.
Yeah I figured.
I’m running a nvidia card on my main rig which runs Linux.
I’m in the thought process of acquiring an AMD Card, so my question was more of a doubt when uninstalling the nvidia drivers so nothing (dependencies etc) is left on the system. Maybe you don’t have to baby Linux as windows need. I’m new here by the way ;)
Thus my reflection about Windows, where’s uninstalling the drivers, don’t get rid of all the junk unless you jump through hoops that I mentioned above. Otherwise you might get bit by conflicts.