#21 2023-01-24 20:59:06

DeepDayze

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From: In Linux Land

Registered: 2017-05-28

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Re: Nvidia 340-series driver

As a replacement card on the Nvidia side I would suggest a GTX 750 Ti, they are still supported with current drivers, use no extra power beyond what the motherboard slot supplies and run cool.

On the AMD side I do not know what to recommend, since I found out they do not support my monitors I stopped looking at them.

That's a decent older card that can work with most recent game titles and the oldest that will work with the current driver, but that one may be marked legacy as well before too long. I have a 750ti in a 3rd computer that I'm not currently using but is a good backup and can get about another 3-5 years out of it on the next legacy driver series before it becomes totally unsupported. Maybe by then Nouveau will be at least performant enough to drive that one till the card dies.

Ebay has this card floating around so that's a good place to look for the 750.

Last edited by DeepDayze (2023-01-24 20:59:38)

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Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Nvidia 340-series driver

What am I doing wrong?

You have to install files the nvidia package is dependent of.
Download all files to same subdirectory, with no other debs.

Install all debs in the subdirectory with command "dpkg -i *".

To get the list of dependencies of package nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver, open it with deb-gview, or unpack the deb-file and open file /DEBIAN/control.

Edit: Might be good to also download and install recomended and suggeted debs.

Right, I temporarily added buster to my sources.list, updated apt, then installed the driver and dependencies. Just be warned do so can easily bork your operating system. Remove the buster entry and update apt again when it's installed. Note that you will have an outdated driver with no future security updates.

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fx3000se

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Registered: 2023-01-23

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Re: Nvidia 340-series driver

Right, I temporarily added buster to my sources.list, updated apt, then installed the driver and dependencies. Just be warned do so can easily bork your operating system. Remove the buster entry and update apt again when it's installed. Note that you will have an outdated driver with no future security updates.

did this too (to be honest I added sid to my sources.list ) and now have the monitor connected.

$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G84GLM [Quadro FX 1600M] driver: nvidia v: 340.108
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.6 driver: N/A resolution:
    1: 2048x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1200~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 renderer: Quadro FX 1600M/PCIe/SSE2

$ xrandr 
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3968 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm x 230mm
   1920x1200     59.95*+
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected primary 2048x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
   2048x1080     60.00*+
   1920x1080     60.00    59.94    50.00    60.05    60.00    50.04  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x1200     60.00  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      59.94    50.00  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x576       50.00    50.08  
   720x480       59.94    60.05  
   640x480       75.00    59.94    59.93v

BUT the picture shows "red'y flickering" and "striping". Is this the by you mentioned " tearing"-effect?
What surprises me is that I am not seeing this effect when booting LM 20.3. Any configuration(files) I could copy from LM 20.3?

Last edited by fx3000se (2023-01-25 17:41:12)

rbh

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Registered: 2016-08-11

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Re: Nvidia 340-series driver

Have you tried installing nvida drivers from  Nvidia CUDA repository?

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zeastom

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Registered: 2023-02-14

Posts: 1

Re: Nvidia 340-series driver

Thanks for the suggestions, my monitor can be connected with HDMI so I guess that's one less thing to worry about.

teastgreed

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Registered: 2023-02-20

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Re: Nvidia 340-series driver

I've just bought a bigger (24") monitor and could be getting a new video card to go with it, so this information could be very useful for me.