linux-headers-generic: Required for Nvidia GPU.

[Fourdee]

Hello :)

Headers are required for building DKMS modules.
Tested on 1660ti. Desktop fails to load without headers pre-installed during Nvidia driver install.

Not had time to test with dietpi-software install 16 (build-essential). However, both methods should end in same result?

With headers installed:

Building for 5.10.0-21-amd64
Building initial module for 5.10.0-21-amd64
Done.

nvidia-current.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.10.0-21-amd64/updates/dkms/

nvidia-current-modeset.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.10.0-21-amd64/updates/dkms/

nvidia-current-drm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.10.0-21-amd64/updates/dkms/

nvidia-current-uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.10.0-21-amd64/updates/dkms/

nvidia-current-peermem.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.10.0-21-amd64/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Setting up nvidia-driver (470.161.03-1) ...

[MichaIng]

Hi Dan, nice to see you active on GitHub 🤩. Thanks for heads up, indeed this driver tries to build a kernel module via DKMS. Since this option is only offered on x86_64 PC, I think we can pick the linux-headers-amd64 instead of the virtual generic package.

dietpi-software install 16

I removed that install option in the meantime. dietpi-software internally, build dependencies are now installed individually, e.g. g++ is not installed anymore (as part of build-essential) if only gcc is needed etc, so a little slimmed down. And users who manually compile software will know which compiler and headers they need 😉.

Ah, and build-essential did and does not include kernel headers, only C/C++ compilers, standard libraries, make and dpkg-dev.

[Fourdee]

Hi Dan, nice to see you active on GitHub 🤩. Thanks for heads up, indeed this driver tries to build a kernel module via DKMS. Since this option is only offered on x86_64 PC, I think we can pick the linux-headers-amd64 instead of the virtual generic package.

dietpi-software install 16

I removed that install option in the meantime. dietpi-software internally, build dependencies are now installed individually, e.g. g++ is not installed anymore (as part of build-essential) if only gcc is needed etc, so a little slimmed down. And users who manually compile software will know which compiler and headers they need 😉.

Ah, and build-essential did and does not include kernel headers, only C/C++ compilers, standard libraries, make and dpkg-dev.

Ah legend, sounds good. Thanks Micha :1

Yep been a while. Great to see the progress you've made on your project. Trying to remember how to send a pull request was a nightmare lol.

Might have a few more fixes at some point. Steam + vulkan-mesa required for proton. But, will get round to it when I get time and do testing + pull req.

[MichaIng]

Did some more updates for this menu. And now headers matching the installed kernel package will be installed. I'm currently experimenting with the "cloud" kernel on VMs, and others may use the real-time kernel package.