No hardware acceleration after nvidia driver install

[Moderator caprea]

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Took out my laptop with a nvidia-card which uses the same driver as yours,340-legacy.
On antiX21 the right driver can be installed with the software from control-centre.
The homemade 340-legacy driver for the bullseye-repos works here flawlessly, many thanks to the devs.
So it seems that the errors you see are really related to your specific hardware.

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 

I have never seen before
driver: loaded: nvidia note: n/a (using device driver)

We could look in /var/log/Xorg.O.log if there are might hints.Also in the /var/log/ddm.log
But anyway it seems to have always been not uncomplicated to get the nvidia-graphics working on a MacBook7,1.
So much for antiX21.

On antiX19 it seems there is a general problem with the nvidia-installer, I see the same problems like you and already opened a new thread.You can wait till it’s fixed or stick with nouveau if it gives a reasonable result.

[Member blackwood]

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>So it seems that the errors you see are really related to your specific hardware.

does this mean, i can’t get help in this forum? (not trying to be sarcastic, genuine question)

otherwise antix 19 and nouveau seem to work fine so far, although i feel cpu is overheating, so i guess i’ll just wait and hope for nvidia-installer to be fixed

I tried installing 340-legacy using smxi, i got an xorg error on launch, but managed to revert to nouveau driver from smxi, do you want me to share what’s in /var/log/Xorg.O.log and /var/log/ddm.log?

thank you so much for helping, situation is much better now with antix19 anyway.

[Member ex_Koo]

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Another thing you can do find which driver the kernel is using, run the below command and look at VGA compatible controller line. amdgpu is what i want see yours would be nvidia something.

lspci -nnk | grep -i -EA3 “3d|display|vga”

02:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset USB 3.1 XHCI Controller [1022:43d5] (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. 400 Series Chipset USB 3.1 XHCI Controller [1b21:1142]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
Kernel modules: xhci_pci
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09:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] [1002:731f] (rev ca)
Subsystem: Sapphire Technology Limited Radeon RX 5600 XT [1da2:e411]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu

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

[Member blackwood]

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$ lspci -nnk | grep -i -EA3 “3d | display | vga”
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 [GeForce 320M] [10de:08a0] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. MCP89 [GeForce 320M] [106b:00ce]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau

[Member ex_Koo]

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As you see your running the nouveau driver. I really hope this is fixed for you.

[Member blackwood]

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everything seems to be working fine apart from some heating issue that might not be necessarily drive related

i found this way for installing the legacy proprietary driver Black screen fix (EFI mode) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBookPro/7-1#GPU_.2F_Nvidia_Geforce_320M

is there any benefit to trying the legacy driver instead of nouveau?

[Member blackwood]

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managed to install nvidia driver instead of nouveau using ctrl alt f1 to exit x, log as root and ddm-mx -p nvidia to uninstall drivers, then smxi and install nvidia drivers

but before i had to follow the instructions i just linked above

finally!

thanks everyone, and i hope this helps others out there

$ lspci -nnk | grep -i -EA3 “3d | display | vga”
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 [GeForce 320M] [10de:08a0] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. MCP89 [GeForce 320M] [106b:00ce]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia

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

[Moderator caprea]

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This is great news! Just for interest, does it help with the overheating?

[Member blackwood]

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unsure, i just installed mpbfan and manually change the minimum fan speed when needed

however i now don’t have access to backlight brightness anymore again 🙁

not sure which driver is better at this point… any thoughts?

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

[Member blackwood]

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> however i now don’t have access to backlight brightness anymore again

found a fix for this here https://askubuntu.com/questions/76081/brightness-not-working-after-installing-nvidia-driver

and just using xbacklight from terminal after

[Member ex_Koo]

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Well Done blackwood Happy days. 🙂

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