antiX-19.2_x64-full – nvidia 340-108 driver renders Antix useless.

[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 in the menu or anything on the panel. 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.

Most recently the steps I took:
1) I upgraded the kernel to 4.9.221
2) rebooted
3) Used Control Centre to install nvidia driver
4) rebooted and found the issue.

Current System 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: 2000 MHz min/max: 1200/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2000 2: 1600 
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: 480.35 GiB used: 7.85 GiB (1.6%) 
  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: 4.62 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: 50 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40% 
Info:
  Processes: 171 Uptime: 8m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 641.9 MiB (16.2%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

• This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by gregorylock. Reason: I just wanted to check mark Notify me

[Member sybok]

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Not an expert but I wonder, which packages did your step 3) install?
Could you please post also?
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
(There is also an Xorg package for Nvidia.)
Judging from
this DEB package, it seems to me that you need some *nvidia-legacy* package(s).

Anyway, I have faced a potentially similar issue with resolution being detected improperly (antiX 19, 64-bit, testing).
As a temporary workaround, I have created a script to call ‘xrandr’ and added a corresponding call to startup file ‘~/.desktop-session/startup’.
Somehow, the issue was fixed later on without me needing to take care of it.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by sybok.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Might help. Might not. I usually roll with the open source nouveu driver myself lately.
Since updating certain things requires a proprietary driver re-install.

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.108/README/faq.html

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948032

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/542443-NVidia-GeForce-9400M-not-working-after-upgrade-to-Leap-15-2

lsmod | grep nvidia

lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D"

For good documentation. I usually look at

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting

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