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NVIDIA – Fix for ‘Legacy’ 390.xx and Kernel 5.17..

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I have an old HP 8760W laptop, which needs the NVIDIA ‘legacy’ 390.xx driver series, and Nouveau is (yet again) not working as it should.. From the patch for kernel 5.17 support and driver 470.94, at https://gist.github.com/joanbm/6c7b027b9436bf31ce979927e544e9d5 it seemed that the changes necessary should be simple.. In fact this patch can be used, with the following change.. … Continue reading →

‘New’ NVIDIA Driver – no 3.10 Support..

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The recently-released NVIDIA 325.08 driver does not compile with kernel 3.10, and the original ‘3.10 patch’ does not work, either.. There is a modified patch available, at https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/549208/linux/patch-for-325-08-on-linux-3-10/ This applies and compiles OK.. Version 319.32 was released in late June, and this version can be patched for kernel 3.10 using the original patch, and does work.. Robert … Continue reading →