Creator and lead developer of Chimera Linux, Nina “q66”, write about their efforts to get NVIDIA drivers to work properly on musl-based distributions.
As you may be aware, one of the limitations of musl-based distributions is that they will not function to their proper extent when used in computers with various NVIDIA graphics cards.
This is due to the proprietary nature of the driver, being built for glibc. I have been experimenting with trying to make this work, and this post is the summary of that effort.
↫ Nina “q66” on the Chimera blog
What follows is a deeply technical exploration of the problem, and the steps Nina q66 and the Chimera team are taking to try and fix it. With how popular and widespread NVIDIA hardware still is, this is a hugely important issue to try and address, and I’m grateful they’re trying to address it.
