[SOLVED] Antix 19.2. Doesn’t seem to work with Nvidia 340-108

[Member gregorylock]

I tried it with several different kernels. Every time it sets the dpi to a very low number. You can not read the font. If you try to change the dpi to a higher number. It almost fixes things. But it won’t do it permanently. As soon as you reboot, your right back to a desktop you can’t read.

Steps I took:
1) I upgraded the kernel to 4.9.221
2) I rebooted
3) I used Control Centre to install nvidia driver
4) Rebooted, and couldn’t read the menu or anything on the panel.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by gregorylock.

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@10:25 in this video tutorial, you can see howto select console font size.
(i recommend was the entire 18min video. Also check out the other vids on that runwiththedolphin YT channel when you have time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpyre6piqD8&feature=youtu.be&t=624

antiX-cc-cli
^— command to launch the “antiX commandline controlCenter”

console-font-select
^—- command to go directly to the font-setting utility

After setting, your selection should be stored & automatically reapplied during future boot sessions.

3) I used Control Centre to install nvidia driver
4) Rebooted, and couldn’t read the menu or anything on the panel.

I haven’t used an nVidia driver in years. Mention the specific graphics card model & someone might recognize whether or not additional steps are required for its setup.

[Moderator caprea]

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Yes, we need more information about the hardware and if the driver is correctly installed.
Output of
inxi -Fxz
should shed some light

[Member gregorylock]

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I had trouble with these forms. Yesterday when I started this post, I tried to post my hardware. To make a long story short, these forums called my post spam. I gave up and just tried to post some brief information. I’m mostly just warning others, that if you need to use driver Nvidia 340-108, your video card probably won’t work with antix 19.2.

You wanted to know what my nvidia hardware is.
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes

In the past, I’ve had good luck with this graphic card. It works really well on Linux Mint 17 and 18 series. It also works well on some of the Linux Lite. I’ve had decent luck on Xubuntu 18.04. But It gives a lot of issues on MX Linux 19.2. I thought that antiX might be a good solution to the old computer. It does not appear to be a good solution because it has issues as soon as one tries to install nvidia driver. It doesn’t come as a surprise since, MX Linux and antiX uses from some of the same sources.

I don’t mind messing around some config files, if someone can tell me what files and what needs changed. If nobody hasn’t got a clue, I’m just to going to try some other lite distro on that computer. Because I don’t have time to just troubleshoot for no good reason. I mean this is not the only problem I ran into with antix on that machine. It appears that I would still need to fix two other issues. One must decide if it’s worth the time to put into it. I don’t have much time.

[Member gregorylock]

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I don’t currently have the nvidia driver installed. The system is a pain in the neck to use when the nvidia driver is installed. So here is the current hardware specs.

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.221-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.6 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Vostro 400 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0GN723 v: ��� serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: 1.0.15 
  date: 06/23/2008 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E4600 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Core Merom rev: D L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 9576 
  Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1200 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.221-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82562V-2 10/100 Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: ff00 bus ID: 00:19.0 
  IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: D-Link System DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8169 
  v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: de00 bus ID: 02:01.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 480.35 GiB used: 9.83 GiB (2.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9500423AS size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide 
  size: 14.59 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 455.45 GiB used: 4.46 GiB (1.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 39 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 200.2 MiB (5.1%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

[Moderator caprea]

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I cannot say anything about the gt218 card. But I have the 340.108 driver installed on a laptop of mine with antiX19 and everything works fine..But I know there was a problem with the 340 driver-installation some time ago.
I will do a new installation including nvidia-driver-installation on the laptop as soon as I find time for it tonight and I will report how the driver behaves here.

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As expected the nvidia-driver installation ran without problems here and the driver works fine.
Updated and dist-upgraded system with kernel 4.9.221-antix.1

 $ inxi -zv7
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.221-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.6 dm: SLiM 1.3.6 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: MEDION product: WIM2170 v: 20 serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 v: A2040 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: MEDION model: WIM2170 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 1.05 
  date: 11/01/2007 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 53.7 Wh condition: 53.7/79.9 Wh (67%) volts: 12.5/11.1 
  model: FOX-LGC-72 WIS_ME3 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.86 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (26.1%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Core Merom rev: D L2 cache: 2048 KiB bogomips: 6650 
  Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1333 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc 
  cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est fpu fxsr ht kaiser lahf_lm lm mca 
  mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse pse36 
  rep_good sep ss sse sse2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tsc vme xtpr 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] vendor: Wistron driver: nvidia 
  v: 340.108 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0427 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 8400M GS/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
  direct render: Yes 

It looks like there is a special problem with your card with MX and antiX and not with the 304 driver itself , which I can hardly believe.
So we would have to take a closer look if there is already something going wrong on your desktop during the nvidia-installation. The log-file is located in /var/log/ddm.log
There is also the nvidia-settings after the driver installation
in menu > Applications > Settings

Have you tried to change anything there?

I know the problem with the wrong dpi and nvidiacards when I switch on an external monitor after the PC has already booted, this can be fixed by logging out and logging in or restarting icewm.
Also the installation of the beta-driver might worth a try.It is offered as an option during the installation.

But you say you don’t have much time for experiments and I can’t offer you a simple solution at the moment, maybe someone else will get in touch and knows more.

[Member gregorylock]

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It’s been a full week since I last wrote anything. I’m a janitor for a school and my work load has been crazy this year. I come home and I’m way too tired to mess around with stuff.

I’m pretty sure that my specific nvidia card doesn’t get along with mx or antix linux. It even gives some problems with PC Linux and the latest Linux Mint. PC Linux it messes up the login screen. Linux Mint 19.x or 20 you got to bump the dpi up or down and then things seems to be ok. I’m just saying because it appears that this card gets strange with different linux distros. However if I use specifically Linux Mint 17.x or 18.x it works with the drivers just fine. Also Xubuntu 18.04 it gives no issues either.

When I’m installing the driver. I don’t know if I should be using the main driver or the one from the backports. Either way it’s a really old driver, and I don’t think nvidia is making anymore drivers for this card.

I tried installing the main driver, and I’ve tried the mx driver. They both give me the same problem.

Today I tried to install the MX Nvidia driver from the backports. If you want to take a look at the code. I put it on pastebin. I’m still new to these antix forums, so I’m just going to post url links this time.

https://pastebin.com/5VSMX5DT

Here is some screen shots I took.

https://i.postimg.cc/jdR2KyyP/01-Nvidia-Install.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MGfKt582/02-Nvidia-Install.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Z5M5rg2x/01-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/858kYv1F/02-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/htjGQgyG/03-Nvidia-Issues.jpg

As you can see, just simply changing the dpi even messes up control centre

https://i.postimg.cc/FsGRK1xq/04-Nvidia-Issues.jpg

[Member gregorylock]

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I’m also very new to postimg.cc I think I can give you larger pictures.

https://i.postimg.cc/syhhYcX6/01-Nvidia-Install.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bq3DyVCJ/02-Nvidia-Install.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/6B94Nxhg/01-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/W2zDhmC7/02-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/PTbvc511/03-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/X46yQCBV/04-Nvidia-Issues.jpg

I forgot to show system specs, after installing the Nvidia Driver.

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.221-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.6 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Vostro 400 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0GN723 v: ��� serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: 1.0.15 
  date: 06/23/2008 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E4600 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Core Merom rev: D L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 9576 
  Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1200 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia 
  v: 340.108 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 210/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.221-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82562V-2 10/100 Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: ff00 bus ID: 00:19.0 
  IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: D-Link System DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8169 
  v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: de00 bus ID: 02:01.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 4.65 GiB (1.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9500423AS size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 455.45 GiB used: 4.65 GiB (1.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 41 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40% 
Info:
  Processes: 165 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 270.8 MiB (6.8%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

[Moderator caprea]

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The driver installed very well, I see nothing strange in the log and inxi is showing the nvidia-driver loads and seems to work “direct render: Yes”
That the control centre looks a bit strange right after changing the dpi is totally normal.
The next time you open it it should be normal.
Could you do me the favour of trying the following:
In the menu at the bottom under Logout, there is “Restart Icewm”
Does it help ?

[Member gregorylock]

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I will try “Restart Icewm” and report back. The thing is, after I reboot the dpi goes little again. Unless “Restart Icewm” fixes that… BRB

[Member gregorylock]

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“Restart Icewm” solved the “control centre” However after a reboot the dpi issues return.

https://i.postimg.cc/2zMBgzxY/05-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/dJWCmRkL/06-Nvidia-Issues.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/YrFmHJXW/07-Nvidia-Issues.jpg

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Sorry I forgot you can hardly read the menu. Restart IceWM is under Logout
the second from the bottom with a round blue arrow.

On the picture “06 Nvidia Issues” the font in the taskbar is OK. Also in the menu?
Is this after you restarted icewm ?

If you have the time you could also post the output of
sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
It might gives hints.

[Member gregorylock]

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I didn’t take a screen shot of that. All of those screen shots was taken right after I ran “Restart IceWM” and then Rebooted. In other words, “Restarting IceWM” only temporary fixed Control Centre after changing the dpi. I loose all the effects of the dpi settings after a reboot.

I’m jumping from computer to computer. I’m using my Mint Machine to write these posts. The Antix drive is in my icy dock. I can get you the “sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log” from here. But I’ll need to put the Antix drive back into the other computer and boot in order to get you another screen shot etc.

Here is Xorg.0.log

https://pastebin.com/Dh3kcznZ

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I have time to do this stuff during the weekend. I just don’t have time during the work week.

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