So no unloading nouveau in live usb session, that’s good to know. Seems like getting the 304.137 driver working in UM18.04 just won’t be happening.
So far the wisest course of action suggested to me is to either move to Debian or upgrade my gpu.
Everything else is sort of hit and miss and most likely more miss than hit in this case…
I thank you for all your help tepik…much appreciated.
doing some research into this myself, i came across what i believe to be the source of the issue… the only libgl (a thing xorg depends on) available in the 18.04 repos is the mesa one, which breaks the nvidia-304 driver… might try something on my own.
edit: reread some of the comments. install 17.10, enable the canonical partners repo add the graphics drivers repo to the sources list, sudo do-release-upgrade
Hi!
I have a pc with an old Geforce 6800 card and I have managed to successfully install the 32bit Nvidia 304.137 driver for it on Lubuntu 18.04; all thanks to a community patch. Here is the procedure.
Install build tools
$ sudo apt install gcc make build-essential gcc-multilib dkms mesa-utils
Download driver from https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123708/en-us
Download patch from https://adufray.com/nvidia-304.137-bionic-18.04.patch
Extract archive, place patch into extracted folder and apply patch
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137.run -x
$ cd ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137
$ patch -p1 < nvidia-304.137-bionic-18.04.patch
Disable nouveau driver and reboot
$ sudo -i
# cat << END > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
blacklist nouveau
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv
blacklist amd76_edac
options nouveau modeset=0
END
# update-initramfs -u
# reboot
Stop x-server
Logout
Bring up terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1, login
$ sudo -i
# service lightdm stop
# init 3
Install NVidia driver
Ignore the first warning about preinstall failing, agree to driver recompilation on kernel update and to configuration files update. Reboot.
# ./nvidia-installer
# reboot
Driver should be working now. Check with the following:
$ lshw -c video 2>&1 | grep driver
Should output"configuration: driver=nvidia"
There is one small problem though. Apparently Nvidia driver installs it’s own version of libvdpau, which does not work with mplayer. That’s why we need to forcefully reinstall libvdpau (and possibly need to do this on kernel update, because driver will recompile and reinstall it’s own, non-functioning version for this library?)
$ sudo apt --reinstall install libvdpau1
References: (placed in separate post because new users are allowed to only 2 links per post)
Compiling nVidia 304.137 on Ubuntu 18.04: https://adufray.com/blog/2018/06/02/nvidia-304-127-on-bionic
How to install NVIDIA.run?: https://askubuntu.com/questions/149206/how-to-install-nvidia-run
This worked.
We have an Compaq Presario V6200 (V6221EU) with nVidia Geforce Go 6150.
The issues described above indicating a faulty card is usually due to subtle driver bugs in the nouveau driver. These card are powered as nv40 by nouveau. The nouveau devs have gone through great lengths to get all these cards supported, but laptop drivers are especially difficult. Even on Windows Vista, which was provided with the laptop, I had to install ‘special vendor’ drivers to get them working.
Works perfect!! Thank you!!
I have a question, Fedorov, you put a link to the nvidia driver for the 32-bit linux system, and then give instructions to change to the extracted folder, but it shows a path for the 64 bit version…The patch referenced in adufray is for the amd-64 version, also the file referenced in nvidia repository is the 64 bit version.
How can I make it work for the 32 bit version?
Regards
Hi, guys
Anyone is able to use hardware acceleration in Firefox after installing above mentioned 304.137 drivers?
When i switch on layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true Firefox just doesn’t start, unfortunately. When ran from terminal it outputs “Segmentation fault” message.
I’ve just purged it and reinstalled back with no luck.
My system is Ubuntu-Mate 18.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64) running on AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2400, 4Gb DDR2 RAM and Nvidia C61 GeForce 6100/nForce 405 integrated GPU.
Hi there. Got a laptop with geforce go 7400 and used this method to install 304 drivers. In the end the command
lshw -c video 2>&1 | grep driver
gives : configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
but the screen is not recognised -it is 1280x800 and atm it says unknown monitor and goes only 1024x768- AND nvidia x-server is not working it says that I don't have a nvidia driver. What to do now ?
@Hasan_Aslan
Try this to get your resolution right:
For all desktop users:
I just got a GT620 on Ebay for $20. Yeah, it's old and, frankly, still crap compared to the newer cards, but it does use the 390 drivers and is a good, stable and reliable card. I noticed that there are many of that era cards for dirt cheap and they are perfectly acceptable for the older systems we've been discussing. Hell, even a GT210 will play 1080p video (mostly) and it uses the 340 driver.
I realize that, for many, budgets are tight (mine no less so) but I finally got frustrated enough that I decided that my time and blood pressure were worth it. It's up to you to make the same decision or not. If it helps, this particular system (Phenom X4 9150e, 8GB ram) has never performed better.
If you have a computer that can't run without the nvidia 304 driver, and you don't want to buy a graphics card, but want the mate desktop, then an alternative would be GhostBSD. They still have support for the 304 driver. FreeBSD still has it as well, along with NomadBSD.
The better way is to stay on Ubuntu ecosystem and reinstall Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS instead.
In this particular case it does not matter that it is end-of-support as a flavor.
I do so with my Nvidia 9600GT and GT425M based devices.
Sorry for bringing an old topic back from the dead. I tried all of the methods described here to install the 304 drivers on Xubuntu 18.04 with no luck. Seems something has changed yet again. I also went as far as re-installing ubuntu 16.04 and still could not install the drivers with any the fixes online. On another site it described the root of the problem being the lack of 2 symbols in the main.c file although I tried to look for an ubuntu equivalent but could not find one.
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mtrr_add);
and
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mtrr_del);
Finally a working solution, thanks for your help
Hi, thanks for the patch so much. It helped me last year for 4 pcs.
Now, Ubuntu 20.04 is released. Would you be so kind to provide a patch?
I tried to install Debian package
https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver
but ran into dependency conflict for xserver (Debian package require [xserver-xorg-core](<< 2:1.19.99), Ubuntu 20.04 provides xserver-xorg-core (2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2)).
GeForce 7050 PV has ugly graphic artefacts with default nouveau driver, so it's not working.
Unfortunately, the nvidia 304 driver will not work with xorg 1.20 and above. Your choices will be to stay with the Ubuntu 18.04 distro, or use nouveau driver. I will keep my laptop on 18.04 until it is not supported.
So something changed where the 304 patch/driver no longer works in 18.04. I was able to install the 304 driver in original Ubuntu 16.04 release from the additional drivers menu, install xfce4 as the display manager, fix the update manager as it was broken in the original release and then install all security updated via a tty session. If I tried to install the 304 driver in 16.04.7 the driver never installed correctly. Any other combinations lead to a non-functioning installation.
The upgrade path from 16.04 to 18.04 "should" work to allow the 304 driver to work correctly but for now Im going to leave things "as-is"
Just completed installing ubuntu mate on an Imac late 2006 24-inch (the white elephant LOL) It has the nvidia 7600 with 256MB of ram which makes it really worthwhile to get running (without it the machine is a useless brick)
The only way I could make it work:
Install the 16.04 distribution from dvd paying attention to the fact that this box is a 32-bit UEFI. see other threads for this, your install media needs special boot prep.
once installed appy all the updates on the 16.04 chain (apt update; apt upgrade; reboot)
DO NOT add the graphics-drivers ppa and surely don't install the drivers contained there. abandon hope all ye who enter.
get hold of the final nvidia-relesaed driver (the 304.137 amd64 "run" file) and patch it as shown earlier in this thread. That patch takes fine on this kernel, at this point you're at 4.15.
run the patched installer. this requires the X server to be shut down. Make sure you have openssh-server installed before shutting down X so you have access to the machine remotely.
I think that's about it, from there after a reboot the machine works nicely. Runs video smoothly at full screen.
I don't know whether an upgrade to 18.04 would preserve this driver work... I would try it but don't want to start over LOL
thanks for reading -bruce.