No hardware acceleration after nvidia driver install

[Member blackwood]

I managed to install driver for igpu nvidia 320m, but things are worse than before. no hardware acceleration, no brightness control (No controller found). I also noticed i get a little modprobe nvidia error on startx. plz help, thank you

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by blackwood.

[Moderator caprea]

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How did you install the driver ? Please post if possible the output of
inxi -zv7

[Member blackwood]

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i installed the driver from the nvidia driver installer on the control center

$ inxi -zv7
System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
           Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBook7,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Mac-F22C89C8 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F22C89C8 serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple v: MB71.88Z.003F.B00.1802022149 date: 02/02/18 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.7 GiB used: 312.4 MiB (17.9%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 9556 
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 798/2394 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est 
           flexpriority 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 smx ss sse sse2 sse4_1 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx vnmi xsave xtpr 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 [GeForce 320M] vendor: Apple driver: nvidia v: 340.108 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:08a0 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Apple Built-in iSight type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 05ac:8507 class-ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia note: n/a (using device driver) unloaded: fbdev 
           resolution: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A direct render: N/A 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:08.0 chip-ID: 10de:0d94 
           class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 Ethernet vendor: Apple driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: 22a0 bus-ID: 00:09.0 
           chip-ID: 10de:0d7d class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           Device-2: Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel port: 2280 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4353 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 4-6.3:7 chip-ID: 05ac:8218 
           class-ID: fe01 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: stopped rfk-block: hardware: no software: no 
           address: <filter> 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 4.73 GiB (4.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SD7SB3Q-128G-1006 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0006 scheme: GPT 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: MATSHITA model: DVD-R UJ-898 rev: HD10 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
           Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 113.97 GiB used: 4.73 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: rootantiX21 
           uuid: 50067456-88ae-4780-8893-2cd862df86ff 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: EFI System uuid: B94E-C341 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 dev: /dev/sda3 label: swapantiX 
           uuid: 3dfdb17d-7948-481a-95d4-98d982d937da 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-6:2 info: Apple Built-in iSight type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           power: 500mA chip-ID: 05ac:8507 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 4-3:2 info: Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (ISO) type: Keyboard,HID,Mouse driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid 
           interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 40mA chip-ID: 05ac:0237 class-ID: 0301 
           Device-2: 4-4:3 info: Pixart Imaging Optical Mouse type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 
           speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2510 class-ID: 0301 
           Hub-5: 4-6:4 info: Broadcom BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           power: 94mA chip-ID: 0a5c:4500 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 4-6.3:7 info: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 05ac:8218 class-ID: fe01 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 131 Uptime: 23m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 
           Packages: apt: 1652 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06

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You are booting in uefi mode.I found this information about the mac book 7.1
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MacBookPro7,1#Nvidia
https://askubuntu.com/questions/264247/proprietary-nvidia-drivers-with-efi-on-mac-to-prevent-overheating/613573#613573
but there is always mentioned a black screen after nvidia installation, which is here not the case.

Just to rule it out, did you use bootparamaters like failsafe ore savevideo to get the live stick to boot, before the installation of antiX?
Before you installed the driver from control-centre, did you try to install it in another way?

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by caprea.

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>Just to rule it out, did you use bootparamaters like failsafe ore savevideo to get the live stick to boot, before the installation of antiX?
no, im not sure what these mean…

yes i tried installing nvidia drivers with smxi

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by blackwood.

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I tried # nvidia-xconfig and now i have the mentioned blackscreen after grub, i had this problem before but i never managed to solve it.

I’m not sure what to do now

[Member blackwood]

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do i need to reinstall antix and follow the ubuntu tutorial?

[Moderator caprea]

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The touchy forum software didn’t like the second link and decided to say it’s spam, sorry.

I would guess there are leftovers from the first nvidia installation with smxi.
I am currently not familiar with the procedure for smxi to remove a driver again.but before a driver is reinstalled the old must first be removed completely.

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I suspect the driver installation i did from smxi is still there even after reinstalling antix, not sure how to proceed now with the black screenn.. i can still ssh into it, any idea what to do?

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If a reinstallation is OK for you , it’s the best way to go, I think.
Then please first try to install the nvidia driver with the software from control-centre.
Afterwards post the output from
inxi -Gxxx

Our answers have overlapped in time.
Do I understand correctly , after the installation with smxi you have already reinstalled ?

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yes i’m reinstalling no problem

(btw, i read on smxi that my driver isnt supported after kernel 5.4, that’s why im using kernel 4.9)

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>Do I understand correctly , after the installation with smxi you have already reinstalled ?

yes

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reinstalled antix, installed nvidia driver from control center here is the output of inxi -Gxxx before i reboot

$ inxi -Gxxx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 [GeForce 320M] vendor: Apple driver: N/A
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:08a0 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Apple Built-in iSight type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:2
chip-ID: 05ac:8507 class-ID: 0e02 serial: 8TA4P03RDDCJ6A00
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: N/A unloaded: fbdev
resolution: 1280×800 s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A direct render: N/A

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i decided not to reboot, until i see your reply

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I just found this and it says the nvidia-legacy driver 340 is not available anymore in Bullseye.
I am afraid that is true
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBookPro/7-1#GPU_.2F_Nvidia_Geforce_320M

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