Question: what is purpse of module alias?

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Easy GPU switching for Nvidia Optimus laptops under Linux

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Question: what is purpse of module alias? #56

Closed Luciogi closed 2 years ago

Luciogi commented 2 years ago

as I see alias in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf

blacklist nouveau
blacklist nvidia
blacklist nvidia_drm
blacklist nvidia_uvm
blacklist nvidia_modeset
alias nouveau off
alias nvidia off
alias nvidia_drm off
alias nvidia_uvm off
alias nvidia_modeset off