this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
57 points (98.3% liked)
Arch Linux
7173 readers
2 users here now
The beloved lightweight distro
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It builds the kernel module for your specific kernel. It's not different from the nvidia package, that's just the same thing pre-build for the default kernel (in fact if you install both nvidia-dkms will build the module locally, then realize the exact same thing it just build is already there and move on...).