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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

Installation problem with Nvidia-304xx and KMS

Hello all,

Setting up an old computer for my father, I am having difficulties passing the graphic card drivers.

Nouveau is very slow and crash once on the desktop (gnome shell) the nvidia drivers ( Nvidia-304xx for GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (rev a2)) doesn't support KMS so Xorg doesn't work.

Searching the forum or the wiki doesn't seem to point toward a good, clean and long-term solution.

Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks,

lo1

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Registered: 2017-09-25

Posts: 584

Re: Installation problem with Nvidia-304xx and KMS

This is unlikely an installation issue, anyway: I doubt anything else than nouveau will work well (you could try to search old nvidia drivers from https://archive.archlinux.org).

Anyway, using nouveau, make sure you add the nouveau module in mkinitcpio, rebuild the initramfs and if it doesn't help try another DE. I see the point of choosing gnome but you may want to go more lightweight if the PC is old.

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Omar007

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Registered: 2015-04-09

Posts: 368

Re: Installation problem with Nvidia-304xx and KMS

Nouveau is very slow and crash once on the desktop (gnome shell)

Logs?

the nvidia drivers ( Nvidia-304xx for GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (rev a2)) doesn't support KMS so Xorg doesn't work.

First, Xorg doesn't need KMS. Second, logs?

What is the output of:

glxinfo

printenv XDG_SESSION_TYPE

(At least for nVidia, but preferably both)

Also, keep the following in mind:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post
- Gnome defaults to Wayland

Last edited by Omar007 (2017-12-22 14:03:18)