Hi everyone,
I have a new laptop from Laptop with Linux and need to install the drivers. The instructions to install the drivers at https://comexr.github.io/ don’t have Atomic Desktop listed. So do I have to setup a Distrobox Fedora container and install them there? I’ve read that drivers should not be installed in a container and if so then how do I install these drivers?
Well if you want bazzite with these drivers you have 3 options.
In my opinion the best and the worst one is to layer these drivers on top on bazzite. You can ask chatgpt to make the commands match for “Fedora Silverblue” or “Fedora Atomic”. Probably it will replace dnf with rpm-ostree, but I am no programmer to guess.
You can also do this in more “proper” way
Either ask kindly devs on discord or github if it is possible to include them in og bazzite
Or create (if you know how) your own bazzite image with these drivers included.
With all due respect, you don’t need to install any drivers. Just make sure you choose the correct Bazzite image for your GPU (AMD or NVIDIA) and your laptop model on bazzite.gg to get the best experience. According to the Bazzite documentation, AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers come preinstalled, and all you need to do is keep the system updated—new driver versions are delivered through normal system upgrades.
See the link below:
That is not the complete truth. Some laptops etc do need some specific drivers for their hardware, especially if they have something more “exotic” in them.
Thank you for your reply. I wish I could but there are ACPI drivers in that package my laptop needs and drivers for the keyboard backlight to work properly.
Could Bazzite include these drivers or do they just include video drivers?
You can create your own custom bazzite image with all your drivers installed then you will just have to run the bootc switch on your current system.
Checkout the ublue-os/image-template repo.
Or use blue-build for your custom image. Much easier when this is your first time: https://blue-build.org/ They have a wizard the setups everything for you.
Or use rpm-ostree to install the RPM (after you read his first: https://docs.getaurora.dev/guides/software/#rpm-ostree )
curl -LO ``https://github.com/comexr/lwl-drivers/releases/download/v4.18.2/lwl-drivers-4.18.2-1.noarch.rpm
rpm-ostree install ./lwl-drivers-4.18.2-1.noarch.rpm