Issues installing Nvidia legacy drivers

[Member snek]

I have been trying to install the correct drivers for my Nvidia GeForce Go 6600 graphics card and I am getting some error. I am very new to this and have no idea what to do to resolve this issue. Attached is the log of when I ran the smxi as instructed in the smxi section of AntiX help page.
Edit: cannot attach .log file so here is the error:

ERROR: (226) The driver you selected: 304.137 does not support your current Xorg version: 1.20.11
If this is wrong, please let the script maintainer know.
You can override this test with -! 6 option. If install works, let maintainer know.

• This topic was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by snek.

[Member PPC]

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There is no attached log file.
Also how did you try to install the driver? Did you use Package Installer? What version of antiX are you using? 17,19,21,22,23a1? 32/64 bits? Full/Base/etc?

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[Moderator caprea]

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You are using bullseye repo, so antiX21/22,what the xorg version tells. In debian for your card, there’s no driver in bullseye.
The last official supported version was buster.

There’s in menu > control-centre > drivers a nvidia-driver-installer.It opens during installation the MX repos and then your driver (304.xxx), which is normally to old for debian, can get installed.
Unfortunately my laptop with such an old card broke and I can’t test the driver-installation for old cards with nvidia-driver-installer in time.
It should work, if it doesn’t, we have to look why, might /var/log/ddm.log gives hint.

[Member heavy metal]

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@ OP: Hi, AFAIK there’s No More support for Linux nvidia legacy drivers for newer versions of Linux, IMHO you will have more luck installing previous versions of Linux like Linux Mint 20.3, LMDE 4 or previous version of AntiX or Ubuntu, or installing Windows on that machine, Windows update will install the correct driver for your Nvidia GPU!

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[Member snek]

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The driver installer didn’t work either. Error:

Candidate is:
Installed is:
Uh oh. Your card is only supported by older legacy drivers which are not in any current Debian suite.

this is the part of the log that most resembles an error

[Member Xunzi_23]

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Hi snek, not enough detail of your hardware and antiX version.
As caprea, who
“definitely does know what he is talking about”
posted, you might not be able to run latest antiX but all hope
is far from lost.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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What is wrong using

Use of the 340-series driver is strongly discouraged. It is not included in stable releases of Debian anymore, has serious unfixable security vulnerabilities, and may not be updated for new kernels in a timely manner. You are highly recommended to use the
built-in Nouveau driver

if security is a priority.

Only thing I can use on this is why I mention it.

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      70.07    60.00  
   800x600       60.32    56.25  
   640x480       66.67    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  

$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405] driver: nouveau v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: NV4C

Plays movies full screen OK even on these specs

$ inxi -b
System:
  Host: shop1 Kernel: 5.10.153-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 3.3.1 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Acer product: Aspire T180 v: R01-B3
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Acer model: EM61SM/EM61PM serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Phoenix
    v: R01-B3 date: 02/07/2007
CPU:
  Info: single core AMD Athlon 64 3800+ [UP] speed (MHz): 2400
    min/max: 1000/2400
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405] driver: nouveau v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: NV4C
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet driver: sky2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 31.51 GiB (1.7%)
Info:
  Processes: 128 Uptime: 16m Memory: 2.67 GiB used: 796 MiB (29.1%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.23

ISP speed is what is a killer usually on my end.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.
• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.

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[Member Robin]

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I only was just aware of this thread, hence I didn’t answer before. I’m running antiX (32bit) on the the 6600 go myself.

It works really fine on nouveau driver, but only after upgrading your kernel to 5.19.0.deb11.2-686-pae debian version. All nouveau before this kernel is broken (I believe I remember that 5.10.142-antiX kernel could do it already, but have not tested this extensively), while running 5.19 continously on antiX 22 for a long period of time now, completely stable.

But if you really and urgently want to use the proprietary 304.137 drivers for some reason, this is possible at least on antiX 19, I’ve done it myself following these instructions: So simply follow precisely the steps from this posting by burrezo. Even when it reads 64 bit, this works on 32 bit systems as well, just apply the instructions analogously, using 32bit components instead. After succeeding with installation you can even use the nvidia-settings tool to setup twinview and detailed colour presets properly. This setup works completely stable, have run it for at least one year.
While this is for antiX 19, you could try to perform the very steps on antiX 21/22. No Idea whether it works, haven’t tried this, after noticing that nouveau works that fine on this card when running the new kernel. (Had not time to check out nouveau as present in the 6.x kernel on this device, so you might want to give the most recent antiX 6.1.11 kernel a try.)

Summary about the 6600 go:
On antiX 17 you can install the 304.137 proprietary driver directly from the packages.
On antiX 19 you need to follow the steps from burrezo (downgrade xorg temporarily, set xorg-core on hold, apply the patches to the nvidia driver package.)
On antiX 21/22 update the kernel to 5.19.0 and use nouveau instead of proprietary nvidia stuff.

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[Member Xunzi_23]

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Hi all, my experience with the the 5.10.142 on NVidia equipped devices has been
terrible.
Only boot fails with green screens. Have no experience with 5.19.
6.1 providing much improved graphics and stability, no more experience of boot fails,
oldest tested device is core 2 duo which is 64 bit.

Performance seems ok.
But not benchmarked on same device with the NVidia drivers installed.

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