How to install Arch on a very outdated Nvidia Driver?

PrussianDoge · 2021-11-26 23:49:55

I have a very old computer using Windows XP and i wanted to install Arch Linux on it so i'd successfully completed my mission of installing Arch Linux on all the computers in my house.
I installed it with no Internet, since the Internet used some proprietary software that is incompatible with Linux. To install it, I used an offline repository created from my actual computer's pacman cache folder.
The Installation was finished, and I somehow got it to boot into KDE (after very annoying errors kept telling me about truncating fonts).
The Problem I have is I got an unsupported NVIDIA driver (using journalctl -p 3 -b tells me this. Nvidia dropped support for it.), and didn't tell me that much.
What do I do?
its some nvidia go driver I can't remember. I think it has 550 in it, that is all i remember.

Logs (Because i forgot to include this)
(neofetch)
(broken arch ascii beware)
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`ooo/
`+oooo:
`+oooooo:
-+oooooo+:
`/:-:++oooo+:
`/++++/+++++++:
`/++++++++++++++:
`/+++ooooooooooooo/`
./ooosssso++osssssso+`
.oossssso-````/ossssss+`
-osssssso. :ssssssso.
:osssssss/ osssso+++.
/ossssssss/ +ssssooo/-
`/ossssso+/:- -:/+osssso+-
`+sso+:-` `.-/+oso:
`++:. `-/+/
.` `/
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OS Arch Linux x86_64
Host Latitude D620
Kernel 5.15.4-zen1-1-zen
ptime 1 min
Packages 797 (pacman)
Shell bash 5.1.8
Resolution 1280x800
Terminal /dev/tty2
CPU Intel Core 2 T5500 (1) @ 1.667GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300
Memory: 112MiB / 1973MiB

Journalctl :

-- Boot 771d5163e10f419c9b4ae7aa31bcbd22 --
Nov 19 12:22:53 shiba kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 GPU installed in this system is
NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more (Using nvidia's drivers site drivers is a very bad idea I think)
NVRM: information. The 495.44 NVIDIA driver will ignore
NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe..

Last edited by PrussianDoge (2021-11-27 01:36:29)

Trilby · 2021-11-26 23:56:33

PrussianDoge wrote:

The problem I encountered basically is caused by the fact my drivers are outdated.

Don't tell us "basically" what the problem is. Tell us precisely what it is. Saying your driver is outdated is nonsense. Drivers are the software, and in arch they are continually updated. I suspect you mean your GPU / video-card is old. But "old" is relative and tell us nothing useful. The wiki gives you the commands you should use to gather information about your actual hardware that you can provide here so you could get actual help. Of course this requires independently overcoming your primary issue first:

PrussianDoge wrote:

I am a bit lazy

PrussianDoge · 2021-11-26 23:59:35

made some edits while I created this post.
I usually write something and just post it without doing fixes after I post it.
I found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … ed_drivers

Last edited by PrussianDoge (2021-11-27 00:06:53)

Trilby · 2021-11-27 00:06:01

You added verbosity, but no information.

Post the journal either in code tags or as a link to a file sharing site. Post the output of lspci showing information about your GPU.

If you can transfer a pacman cache between a networked computer and the system in question, you can transfer log files in the opposite direction.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-11-27 00:06:57)

PrussianDoge · 2021-11-27 00:07:40

I just found the computer, I'm writting all the logs I have to the usb

Last edited by PrussianDoge (2021-11-27 00:10:38)

jonno2002 · 2021-11-27 01:23:26

this says you need the 304.xx driver:
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Lin … chips.html

this says your shit out of luck, and to use the nouveau driver instead:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … ed_drivers

PrussianDoge · 2021-11-27 01:30:37

I'll try to use that when I add it to my usb repo. It will either work or nothing will work i guess

Last edited by PrussianDoge (2021-11-27 01:33:53)

jonno2002 · 2021-11-27 01:35:45

just remove the nvidia drivers completely and it should "just work"

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How to install Arch on a very outdated Nvidia Driver?

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