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nandi

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Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

I have problems with my nvidia ion gt218 graphics car d on Debian 11 the
nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver supports it the problem that driver got removed from debian 11. I tried to put buster first to my sources and install it with dkms and firmware packages the xorg stopped working. After tried to add Sid to sources this times the module is loaded but still no Xorg. I managed to revert it back to generic xorg but lost my hdmi audio during the process.
Is there any way to make this gt218 work on debian 11?
If i go back to debian 10 would that make the 340xx work with it?

nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

All right i did some search which says 5.4.0-59 kernel the latest which works together with 340xx no wonder my 5.10 kernel have a black screen even when the neavou modul blacklisted The old 4.19 kernel from buster maybe would work but i dont wanted something that old.

jeffreyC

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

All right i did some search which says 5.4.0-59 kernel the latest which works together with 340xx no wonder my 5.10 kernel have a black screen even when the neavou modul blacklisted The old 4.19 kernel from buster maybe would work but i dont wanted something that old.

The 4.19 kernel is an LTS series of kernels, the 5.4 kernel is also LTS but I do not know where you can find it in a Debian package.

antiX has the 4.19 kernels in their repos.

hhh

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

The easiest solution is to use MX Linux Wildflower, they have an Nvidia Driver script that will detect and install everything (and remove everything if it borks).

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-21-wildflower-released/

If you want to try the script on BunsenLabs...

https://github.com/MX-Linux/ddm-mx

For removal/recovery, there is also this page...

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/nvidi … -recovery/

For addition support, register on their forums...

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

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el_koraco

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

smxi used to install graphics drivers really well.

jeffreyC

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

If you do as hhh suggests, the MX Linux package installer makes it easy to install the 4.19 kernel from the antiX repo.

Last edited by jeffreyC (2022-11-18 08:25:53)

nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Thank you for the input guys i managed to install the 4.19.0-22 kernel and headers from Buster that allowed me to install the 340xx driver the modul is loaded. The only problem the font size went to 3 in every menu in openbox and the xrandr dosnt seems to able to change resolution either. I cant read anything in the nvidia panel.

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

The only problem the font size went to 3 in every menu in openbox and the xrandr dosnt seems to able to change resolution either. I cant read anything in the nvidia panel.

Login at one tty. Edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. Set prefered size att line 4: "gtk-font-name=..."

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nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Thank you very much changed it to 30 now i can see the writing on menus only just conky has still small letters.

ceeslans

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Instead of setting such high fontsize in .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini , you could try to explicitly set the Xft.dpi value (standard value is 96).
Suggest to add this setting in ~/.Xresources:

! Force correct dpi  -----------------------
! (e.g. in case nvidia driver installed)---
!--------------------------------------------------
Xft.dpi: 96

Reboot (or log out/in) to apply the setting.
Hope this helps

Last edited by ceeslans (2022-11-18 19:55:25)

nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Wow Sir that fixed my computer.
Thank you very much.
All respect to you

Last edited by nandi (2022-11-18 21:17:08)

rbh

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Instead of setting such high fontsize in .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini , you could try to explicitly set the Xft.dpi value (standard value is 96).

That is one possibility. One other possibility is to set lower screenresolution.
Or, use the screens full capabilities and configure the gui to be readable.
I set terminal font, gtk-3.0/settings.ini, geany font etc to 14. Next time a by a newer better screen, i will have to increase it.

Either way @nandi, if you are satisfied with the solution, mark the thread as solved.

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nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Funny thing the solution works from one exception it did broke Kodi tried 2 different versions both saying Failed to open zone.tab it worked before with the tiny menus since that got fixes it broke very strange.

hhh

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

I vote NOT marking this thread [RESOLVED] and definitely not [SOLVED] since the 340xx driver is discontinued in Bullseye, so any solution is, in fact, a workaround.

My soon-to-be-ex-laptop uses that driver and I'd previously downgraded my sources to Buster and installed the driver and headers, let dkms build it, and then restored my Bullseye sources, and that worked without messing up my fonts but that was right after the Bullseye release, many packages have been upgraded since then. Currently I'm using MX Linux Wildflower and the script works great, plus it creates a text file in your Home folder with the command to revert to the nouveau driver, which also works great so I recommend the MX script.

At some point you'll have to bite the bullet and get newer hardware. I don't know if it's still true, but in general people have always had better luck with an Intel/linux combo when it comes to graphics. As Linus himself once said, and you can find the YouTube video if you search for it, "*explitive* NVidia!"

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nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Wow its so intresting to read how you went through the same journey downgrading the kernel and everything.To be honest i just stayed with Debian because spent too much time to setup gtk-pipe viewer you would not belive how many depedencies it has. Could install MX Linux in a different partition and slowly transfer everything to it.
I agree everything what you said
Nvidia is not good on Linux this pc was very cheap thats why i still messing with it.

jeffreyC

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

antiX specializes in being for older computers and they have the Nvidia 340 driver in their Bullseye repo:

http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye/pool/nonfree/n/

el_koraco

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

At some point you'll have to bite the bullet and get newer hardware.

You can build a 300 dollar PC which will last you ten years. If you want a laptop, used Thinkpads can be found for the same amount. I am in the process of selecting parts for my own rig, since the authorities responsible for my work have given up on MS Excel macros, so I can go full Linux everywhere. I will probably build something in the 600-800 dollar range, but this is simply because I am rigging up a forever desktop - a Ryzen APU will work the same in 2038 as it does now (we are all dead in 2038 anyway).

nandi

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

antiX sounds nice i used to have the debian 10 version of it installed only thing i did not liked the command line volume control what it had.
On my debian 11 Looks like the Xorg.conf file which the nvidia tool generated made Kodi crash
just dont know which part i need to uncomment in it to make it work with Kodi.

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

Lilidog also has the nvidia script ported from MX linux if still looking for options. https://sourceforge.net/projects/lilidog/

hhh

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Re: Nvidia Ion desktop gt218

At some point you'll have to bite the bullet and get newer hardware.

You can build a 300 dollar PC which will last you ten years. If you want a laptop, used Thinkpads can be found for the same amount.

Currently running a refurbished 12 year old Dell Latitude, the only reason it's dying is because of the disk hard drive instead of a newer ssd and me living in the elements for a few months (homeless). It's still working though. I paid less than $200 USD for it five years ago. I'll use it for a music source until it dies.

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