Last nvidia-legacy304xx driver, for Antix 19

[Member Len E.]

It is common knowledge that Nvidia discontinued development
of the subject driver in 2017, at version 304.137-7, usable
on kernels 4.13 or earlier. A more obscure fact is that the
driver requires xorg-server-1.19.n, and won’t work on later
versions.

This latter fact did not come to light with Ubuntu-18.04, which
uses xorg-server-1.19.6.

There is an excellent post at
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2396263
where the author describes the implementation of the
driver on Ubuntu-18.04, with an available patch to support
kernels 4.14 and 4.15.

As a trial on Antix 19, I downgraded the xorg-server to
the Debian Stretch version 1.19.2 by installing the
relevant Debian Stretch backports modules from a
directory with the command sudo dpkg -i *.deb.
NB: It was first necessary to delete the current
virtualbox-guest-x11 package, because there is no
stretch counterpart. The list of modules is in
the attached file, StretchBackportsGraphics.txt

I then followed the procedure in the July 17, 2018
entry of the Ubuntu post to the letter, with 4 small
variations:

trivial —> I used leafpad rather than nano to
create the disable-nouveau.conf file.
minor —-> I needed to use sudo reboot rather
than just reboot-alone commands
significant —-> I omitted the patch statement which
is only required for kernels 4.14 and 4.15

important ——> I used the command sudo service slim stop
Antix 19 uses the slim display manager, not lightdm

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To my delight, the installation went just fine.

sudo lshw -C video and sudo inxi -Gxx commands confirmed that the
nvidia driver was in effect.

Len E.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Len E..

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1. StretchBackportsGraphics.txt

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