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zefram

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old NVIDIA graphics on BORON

Hope posting in the correct section,

After years, I finally decided last week to upgrade from Lithium to Beryllium (thanks @rbh), and then to Boron (thanks @johnraff) by following their tutorials on the forum: they worked fine and flawlessly. Now i've got my old HP updated to actual BORON/BOOKWORM!

Since my old NVIDIA graphics 210 is requiring legacy 340 driver not supported since BUSTER (issue: secondary monitor not detected), i went to download and compile it by myself.

I never did it, so told to me It's not too late to learn! and found this useful guide https://gist.github.com/Anakiev2/b828ed … e9e5cf2c63.

My old pc actually sports dual head feature fully configurable via arandr and via nvidia-settings panel. Thanks to all!

unklar

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Registered: 2015-10-31

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Re: old NVIDIA graphics on BORON

@zefram

Thank you and congratulations on your constructive work! 

johnraff

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Re: old NVIDIA graphics on BORON

@zephram thank you for this!
People who need the Nvidia 340 driver will be happy.

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zefram

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Re: old NVIDIA graphics on BORON

Being excellent ... Not possible if not a pleasure!
Cheers!

DeepDayze

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Re: old NVIDIA graphics on BORON

The only thing is that there might be kernel interface changes that can break even the older driver code when you use newer kernels. You might be able to find patches for the 340.xx series on the Web when needed and you can apply them then build.

Last edited by DeepDayze (2024-08-28 12:51:30)

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zefram

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Re: old NVIDIA graphics on BORON

Yes, it make sense, since last update did re-install nouveau driver, I did take in account to redo this workaround every next update ....

Maybe it's time to force an hardware upgrade:)

Last edited by zefram (2024-08-28 16:28:34)