How old are we talking? The nvidia open-source drivers dropped support for everything prior to the 20-series i think? but the closed-source nvidia drivers still support older cards.
2013 I think.
It’s a 710M laptop gpu. The needed driver is the 390 something like that. Both fedora and ubuntu based distro had dropped support for it. I tried manual installation but indeed it failed because it doesn’t seems to play nice with the kernel.
If you’re ever inclined to to go back, OpenSUSE (at least Tumbleweed, not sure about Leap) still supports the old drivers. I’m starting to be in the same boat with my 150 MX.
Although I rarely use it. Putting the laptop to sleep often ends up in a crash with the nVidia drivers. Luckily I also have Intel onboard graphics in the thing.
If you’re new to Linux, then NixOS may be outside your comfort zone, but nixpkgs does enable simple patch set integration for legacy Nvidia drivers for use with recent kernels. You could try enabling the 390 config option from a NixOS desktop install, or fetch and apply the appropriate patch from aurPatches source yourself from a different distro for a corresponding kernel version:
I run a GTX 980 Ti; Maxwell architecture is still supported for three years. Older than that: Kepler support ended last year and Fermi support ended in 2023, and they won’t play nice with kernels released since then.
How old are we talking? The nvidia open-source drivers dropped support for everything prior to the 20-series i think? but the closed-source nvidia drivers still support older cards.
2013 I think. It’s a 710M laptop gpu. The needed driver is the 390 something like that. Both fedora and ubuntu based distro had dropped support for it. I tried manual installation but indeed it failed because it doesn’t seems to play nice with the kernel.
If you’re ever inclined to to go back, OpenSUSE (at least Tumbleweed, not sure about Leap) still supports the old drivers. I’m starting to be in the same boat with my 150 MX.
Although I rarely use it. Putting the laptop to sleep often ends up in a crash with the nVidia drivers. Luckily I also have Intel onboard graphics in the thing.
If you’re new to Linux, then NixOS may be outside your comfort zone, but nixpkgs does enable simple patch set integration for legacy Nvidia drivers for use with recent kernels. You could try enabling the 390 config option from a NixOS desktop install, or fetch and apply the appropriate patch from
aurPatchessource yourself from a different distro for a corresponding kernel version:Thanks! I’ll look into that.
I run a GTX 980 Ti; Maxwell architecture is still supported for three years. Older than that: Kepler support ended last year and Fermi support ended in 2023, and they won’t play nice with kernels released since then.