On 2018-10-05 13:49:58 Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, William Morder wrote:
> > 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.

	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