Which antix version is best for my nvidia driver?

[Moderator caprea]

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The driver I installed on the laptop is installed with the installer (ddm-mx) from the control-centre.
Is this an oversight ? Above you described it, is the other way around.

[Member blackwood]

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Did you have to do anything else other than just following the installer script and rebooting?

[Moderator caprea]

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Nothing else, just followed the script.

[Member blackwood]

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If i do that i get black screen aftee grub before login screen… Hope somebody can help

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

[Member olsztyn]

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blackwood wrote:

If i do that i get black screen aftee grub before login screen

I was getting about the same on my nVidia 340. I think the problem is not so much kernel but rather X instead. The new X server version does not support nVidia 340 the way I understand.

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

[Member blackwood]

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smxi says kernel 5.4 last supported for driver 340.108
and Xorg 1.21 and newer may not work for driver 340.108

how do i check xorg installed version?

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

[Member blackwood]

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I have kernel 4.19 and x.org x server 1.20.11

I don’t understand why i get black screen after driver install

if someone can help I’d really appreciate it

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

[Member olsztyn]

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Just looked at your inxi output in your first post and it appears to me your Xorg version is 1.20.
So theoretically it might be possible for nVidia to work after all. I am trying to search some recent posts from this forum providing more info. I remember I have seen some explanations from antiX experts…

Update:
Post #71373 in this forum refers to an info on successful installation of nVidia 340 on MX21, so antiX 21 should also work. Just a matter to figure this out.

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

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

[Member blackwood]

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Solved!

I followed this https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBookPro/7-1#GPU_.2F_Nvidia_Geforce_320M

Black screen fix (EFI mode)

[Member olsztyn]

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Congrats!
Is this fix for EFI only or also for legacy MBR machines?
And which kernel did you use?

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

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

[Moderator caprea]

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Very nice you found a fix for your macbook and posted it here. I totally forgot that macbooks sometimes need additional configurations.

[Member blackwood]

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I used kernel 4.19.0-222-antix.1-amd64-smp

[Member blur13]

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caprea,

Your inxi output states:
“OpenGL: ”

ie nothing. Thats interesting because I have the same issue with the legacy Nvidia driver. The graphics card should be capable of OpenGL, right? So I’m thinking maybe the drivers are not installed properly.

[Member blackwood]

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I have the same in inxi but in the nvidia x server settings it shows settings for opengl as if it’s working…

[Moderator caprea]

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@blur13, I have never ever seen anything else in inxi like OpenGL: renderer
For example this is from my intel graphic

$ inxi -Gxxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T440p driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  chip-ID: 8086:0416 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 

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