Which antix version is best for my nvidia driver?

[Member blackwood]

I have 2010 macbook and the latest available nvidia driver is 340.108.

What is the latest antix and kernel I can install?

runit or sysvinit?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by blackwood.

[Member PPC]

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I have a 390.xx and it runs great on antix 19.x, default kernel, sysvinit.
I’m almost certain that it makes no difference what init you use…

P.

[Member blackwood]

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Thanks, the init question doesn’t have anything to do with driver, just asking in general which is better/lighter

[Member olsztyn]

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blackwood wrote:

I have 2010 macbook and the latest available nvidia driver is 340.108.
What is the latest antix and kernel I can install?

This my input is probably not the best opinion, but just from my limited experience:
– All my attempts to install nVidia 340 driver on antiX 21 failed.
– My past attempts of installing nVidia 340 driver on antiX 19 also failed but I have seen on the web someone was able to.
– I had no problem installing nVidia 340 driver on antiX 17.

I would also be very interested if someone has a solution on antiX 21…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Moderator caprea]

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The 340 nvidia legacy driver is still available on antiX21.
antiX uses a backported driver from the MX-repo.
It’s installable with the nvidia installer from control-centre on antiX21.
control-centre > driver > nvidia installer

[Member blackwood]

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Yes but it’s based on debian 11, is that driver compatible with that version of debian and what kernel to use?

[Moderator caprea]

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Yes,it’s compatible with debian bullseye 11.
I have the driver installed with 21 on a laptop with a legacy card which I am not using right now.
Will look which kernel is installed as soon as possible.

[Member blackwood]

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Thank you, smxi script says kernel 5.4 or earlier

[Member blackwood]

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can you please tell me how you managed to install driver 340.108 on antix 21? i tried driver installer from control center and smxi both gave me black screen at reboot

[Moderator caprea]

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The kernel is 4.9.0-279-antix, the card is GeForce 8400M GS

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.0 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: MEDION product: WIM2170 v: 20 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: MEDION model: WIM2170 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 1.05 
  date: 11/01/2007 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.4 Wh (54.9%) condition: 48.1/79.9 Wh (60.1%) 
  volts: 12.5 min: 11.1 model: FOX-LGC-72 WIS_ME3 status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Core Merom rev: D cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6650 
  Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] vendor: Wistron driver: nvidia 
  v: 340.108 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) Webcam (UVC) type: USB 
  driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1:2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 8400M GS/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Wistron driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet 
  vendor: Wistron RTL8101e Medion WIM 2210 Notebook PC driver: r8169 
  v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Foxconn driver: ath5k v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 29.82 GiB used: 4.35 GiB (14.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: C3000.6-M032 size: 29.82 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.8 GiB used: 4.35 GiB (55.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 32.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 157 Uptime: 1m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 386.2 MiB (9.8%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1650 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

Out of curiosity I just installed the 5.10.88-antix.1-amd64-smp-1 kernel and headers with synaptic and the build looked good, I didn’t reboot until now, though.
Please wait.

In the driver-installer you have to check to look for the backports,too.

[Moderator caprea]

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Nope, the 5.10.88 didn’t boot here.
Looks like you have to try the 4.9 kernel
Also it’s might possible you have some leftovers from your smxi install.
Before you install the driver with the installer from control-centre the driver from the installation with smxi needs to be completely removed.

[Member blackwood]

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I did like you said, and i got a black screen at reboot

[Moderator caprea]

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There should be a /var/log/ddm.log file
Could you post it. It might gives a hint whats going on.

[Member blackwood]

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i get a black screen after grub and before login screen so i cant really access files

did a clean install of antix 21 runit, did ctrl alt f1, logged as root, ddm-mx -p nvidia to remove drivers then installed driver 340.108 with smxi. i got errors after grub, x doesnt start

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by blackwood.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by blackwood.

[Member blackwood]

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I’m using kernel 4.9 obviously

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