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Graphics Problems. Nvidia 6100

Clean 5.0RC 64-bit install on AMD Athlon 64 with NVidia 6100.

I get weird video glitches I don't exactly know how to describe. Flickers and lines, copies of whole windows appearing and disappearing, etc. It happens all the time, but so far I've noticed it the worst when terminal is scrolling text (like during apt update) and I have a browser open.

Based on what I think I've learned, I'm using the built-in neavuoa drivers which should work fine, but if I want better performance I could use nvidia drivers. The latest version for my chipset is 304 and last updated in 2017. Since built in is not working fine, I tried to install nvidia-304 and that won't install.

So looking for advice - is there anything I can do to fix the neavou? Is installing nvidia a good idea, if so, how?

<I'll copy/paste the exact response to apt-install in next message>.

Code:

bodhi@AMD64:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-304

[sudo] password for bodhi:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package nvidia-304 is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source



E: Package 'nvidia-304' has no installation candidate

bodhi@AMD64:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

 Fresh drivers from upstream, currently shipping Nvidia.



## Current Status



Current short-lived branch release: `nvidia-396` (396.24)

Dropped support for Fermi series (https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4656)



Current long-lived branch release: `nvidia-390` (390.48)

Old long-lived branch release: `nvidia-384` (384.130)



For G8x, G9x and GT2xx GPUs use `nvidia-340` (340.106)

For NV4x and G7x GPUs use `nvidia-304` (304.137) End-Of-Life!



Support timeframes for Unix legacy GPU releases:

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142



## What we're working on right now:



- Normal driver updates

- Help Wanted: Mesa Updates for Intel/AMD users, ping us if you want to help do this work, we're shorthanded.



## WARNINGS:



This PPA is currently in testing, you should be experienced with packaging before you dive in here:



Volunteers welcome! See also: https://github.com/mamarley/nvidia-graphics-drivers/



### How you can help:



## Install PTS and benchmark your gear:



****sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite



Run the benchmark:



****phoronix-test-suite default-benchmark openarena xonotic tesseract gputest unigine-valley



and then say yes when it asks you to submit your results to openbechmarking.org. Then grab a cup of coffee, it takes a bit for the benchmarks to run. Depending on the version of Ubuntu you're using it might preferable for you to grabs PTS from upstream directly: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads



## Share your results with the community:



Post a link to your results (or any other feedback to): https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers-testers



Remember to rerun and resubmit the benchmarks after driver upgrades, this will allow us to gather a bunch of data on performance that we can share with everybody.



If you run into old documentation referring to other PPAs, you can help us by consolidating references to this PPA.



If someone wants to go ahead and start prototyping on `software-properties-gtk` on what the GUI should look like, please start hacking!



## Help us Help You!



We use the donation funds to get the developers hardware to test and upload these drivers, please consider donating to the "community" slider on the donation page if you're loving this PPA:



http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute

 More info: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.



Ign:1 http://packages.bodhilinux.com/bodhi bionic InRelease

Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease

Hit:3 http://packages.bodhilinux.com/bodhi bionic Release

Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]

Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu bionic InRelease

Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]

Ign:7 http://packages.bodhilinux.com/bodhi bionic Release.gpg

Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease [21.3 kB]

Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]

Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease

Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [13.1 kB]

Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [14.1 kB]

Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [4,644 B]

Fetched 300 kB in 6s (49.0 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

Code:

bodhi@AMD64:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-304

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:



The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 nvidia-304 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-15 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-18 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-19 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-20 but it is not installable or

                      xorg-video-abi-23

              Depends: xserver-xorg-core but it is not going to be installed

              Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 331.20) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

bodhi@AMD64:~$

And Synaptic wants to remove everything:

https://i.imgur.com/lBB7JKw.jpg

I installed the nvidia drivers following this procedure: https://adufray.com/blog/2018/06/02/...-127-on-bionic
but still have same video glitches. In fact they seem worse. Hmmmmm....

I have an old nVidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX - works without any issues on Mint 18.3 but cannot install the nvidia-304 driver on Bodhi - no error messages displayed but lsmod does not show the nvidia module (nouveau is not replaced). Has anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks

That procedure I linked worked perfect for me on 5.0. Did you try it? The only thing that tutorial didn't mention was that you have to exit the x-server before installing the nvidia drivers, using the command 'sudo service lightdm stop'

The way I did it, change your download directory and username as needed:

download nvidia driver from: http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...x/123709/en-us
save patch from: https://adufray.com/nvidia-304.137-bionic-18.04.patch

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
COPY/PASTE:
blacklist nouveau
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv
blacklist amd76_edac
options nouveau modeset=0
SAVE/EXIT (CTRL-X)
sudo apt install gcc make build-essential gcc-multilib dkms mesa-utils
cd /home/bodhi/Downloads
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137.run -x
cd ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137
patch -p1 < ~/nvidia-304.137-bionic-18.04.patch
sudo update-initramfs -u
reboot

After reboot you'll be in some lower resolution video driver, goto terminal and run:

sudo service lightdm stop

Press CTRL+ALT+F2

login: bodhi
cd /home/bodhi/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137
sudo ./nvidia-installer
reboot

@enigma9o7, Many thanks. It did work for my 32 bit installation with the appropriate file names. Compiling failed when I tried to select the automatic compilation option when kernel changes but it is not a big deal to re-compile with each kernel change.

Thanks for your suggestion and sharing the links.

The nvidia drivers didn't fix the video issue I initially installed them for, and caused new issues. VLC complained about missing codecs. MPV missing librararies. I was chasing workarounds and decided just to go back to default since nvidia didn't help anything for me anyway, and now vlc/mpv working again, etc.

So my advice, don't install nvidia using that method unless you want to keep solving new problems. It also makes it harder to remove since it wasn't installed by package manager.

Also, my video issue is magically fixed. Dunno exactly how. Cuz when I was trying to restore default I kept trying different advice I read online about how to restore nouveau and I'm guessing something I did along the way fixed it.

@enigma9o7, thanks for the advice. I was trialing Bodhi and LinuxLite and found that LL is easier to configure (standard Ubuntu layout) than Bodhi although Bodhi was slightly better when it came to boot time. So I have decided not to pursue with Bodhi at this time. I also found that tweaking Moksha was a challenge particularly since I am not used to it.

Thanks again for your help.