5 Oct
2018
5 Oct
'18
8:57 p.m.
On 2018-10-05 13:49:58 Felmon Davis wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, William Morder wrote:
The only Linux drivers that I've had problems with are the Wacom driver,
because of my ancient RS-232 serial-port tablet) and the obscure
USB-to-serial driver which I tried to use on a machine that had no native
serial ports.
I also struggle regularly with the PulseAudio subsystem, which is not well
supported on OpenSuSE, but I consider it to be an application, not a driver.
Leslie
I assumed readers would know I meant that, in
Linux, drivers are packaged
in a such a way that quite often we "never notice them", as you put it;
except, that is, when it comes to third-party, proprietary stuff.
ok, so it just comes down to a matter of perception but we have
agreement on what a 'driver' is (thanks, E. Liddel) and also that not
everything is "out of the box" in Linux for some of us.
Thanks for the message, as I am glad to see that
your address is not
getting marked as spam.
E. Liddel's messages *always* go to spam in my case as well as one or
two others. no loss since I regularly check and haul them out but then
they are not in sequence. my address hides the fact it is a gmail
system. I should write a filter.
f.