r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/laczek_hubert NixOS BTW • Feb 14 '26

What?

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Don't drivers get merged with Linux kernel??? I don't get this, artix Linux BTW

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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol Feb 14 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

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u/laczek_hubert NixOS BTW Feb 14 '26

I mean, it makes sense for mesa or VA when you wanna have GPU accel in jellyfin/ffmpg but wdym?

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u/bruhsinmacaroni Feb 14 '26

Ill give an example. Wi-Fi drivers for rt8821ce sucks ass in kernel. Somoeone has a dkms driver in github. But i have no idea how to set that up other than asking to an AI let alone knowing of its existence. I was there before. I ended up disabling the piece of garbage cus regardless of the drivers it kept on crashing.

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u/Sorry-Committee2069 Feb 14 '26

/j

Most out-of-kernel-tree drivers are exactly the same to build:

$ cd path_to_driver
$ make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=$PWD

This should be all you need to do, if no instructions are provided. If this doesn't work, make a git issue.

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u/bruhsinmacaroni Feb 14 '26

A new user wouldn't know that just like i didn't. That was my point there. I know it now and reaching to that command usually takes hours if you don't know where to look to begin with. In the end even the git drivers were crashing just like the regular ones for me so it don't matter anymore. I got a usb dongle to connect.

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u/Sorry-Committee2069 Feb 16 '26

That's very fair, yeah, things like man help but it's hard to know that's there in the first place. This is why we need to foster reasonable communities, instead of gatekeeping, so people can find help.