Old NVIDIA driver not installable in Freya

[Frank]

System is an old AMD Athlon XP 1900+ on a ASUS A7V600-X MoBo with NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200

elementaryos-0.3.2-stable-i386.20151209 is installed and up.

cat /proc/version_signature
Ubuntu 3.19.0-59.66~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt19

lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA -A 12
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] [10de:0201] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:5105]
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
 Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Memory at f3800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Expansion ROM at f37f0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

Starting with "nouveau-driver" give bad luck with black screen. From nvidia-home i got:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.19-pkg1.run &
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1.run

Both packages won't install. In both cases the same failure message appear:

From: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time:
Tue May 24 11:23:02 2016 installer version: 1.0.7

PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

option status: license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
no cc version check : false
run distro scripts : true
no nouveau check : false
run nvidia-xconfig : false
sigwinch work around : true
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
installer prefix : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
precompiled kernel interfaces path : (not specified)
precompiled kernel interfaces url : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com RPM file list : (not specified)
selinux chcon type : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> License accepted. -> Installing NVIDIA driver version 96.43.23. -> Running distribution scripts executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'... -> done. -> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Continue installation anyway? (Answer: Yes) -> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc". -> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".

ERROR: The kernel header file '/lib/modules/3.19.0-59-generic/build/include/linux/version.h' does not exist.

The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files in '/lib/modules/3.19.0-59-generic/build' have not been configured. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

A sudo apt-get install linux-generic did not fix the problem.
Graphics work with no/unknown driver without any chance of setting resolution or other things.
Monitor will not identified.
Process "gala" is running high about 60% and mostly more.

[David Heidelberg (okias)]

Problem is, that old nvidia drivers doesn't seems to be compatible with 3.19 kernel (there are some changes).

If you have black screen issue with it, try report it upstream and they maybe get get fixed. On #nouveau channel they could help you, if you can get dmesg.

To get screen output running, append in /boot/grub/grub.cfg to your actual kernel line nouveau.modeset=0 .

Also try experiment with later kernels, try 4.5.x, 4.6.x, 4.7.x and also you could try latest development 4.8_rc1

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

There is not much elementary OS can do in this case.

Consider giving Loki a shot, maybe Nvidia drivers work better on the newer kernel version shipped with it.

[Frank (frank-epay)]

Couldt be closed. HW no longer exists.

Am 23.08.2016 um 13:55 schrieb Zisu Andrei:
> There is not much elementary OS can do in this case.
>
>
> Consider giving Loki a shot, maybe Nvidia drivers work better on the newer kernel version shipped with it.
>
> ** Changed in: elementaryos
> Status: New => Invalid
>