Hey all

Fresh difficulties after finally getting a slackware 15.0 install up and running, KDE desktop.

The pre-packaged nouveau drivers work pretty well on the old ASUS 6600 graphics card that came with the machine and I am willing to leave it at that for my purposes, but before committing to the installation I tried out the nvidia driver install from slackbuilds, as usual.

The non-legacy version did not work on an earlier install attempt, so I went with the oldest, the 340 legacy in the hopes that the old card is still supported by them.

Installed the nouveau blacklist as usual, and then the kernel bit, and then the drivers proper with all the extras linked on the slackbuilds page included.

Building the packages finishes, but there are C++ warnings (not unexpected).

Installed the packages with installpkg.

Unfortunately, after installing the xorg.conf file generated by nvidia-xconfig and trying to start up X with KDE as a normal user. No dice. No graphics mode change and it drops back to shell.

So I attempt to revert by removepkg of the two nvidia packages and removepkg the blacklist.

I remove any xorg.conf.

Trying to run startx now does not work, with X log errors about failing to find glx and various other libraries.

How to get back to default nouveau configuration? - it seems the removal of the nvidia drivers took some things with it that it shouldn't have, perhaps?

Any help?

Thanks

RX 6600?
Isn't that a AMD GPU?

Regardless, remove the nvidia blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/ and delete
your xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, and reboot.

Hi cwizardone, thanks for responding

> RX 6600?

Definitely Nvidia, I used Nvidia drivers to get it running when it was a windows machine before linux install.

The card is very anonymous other than it's asus branding. I thought I caught a glimpse of 6600 written small on the board when I first starting working on it (inherited machine), but I was mistaken, or confused it with another on the pile. I've just taken it out to look closer, and there is very little identification other than a tiny text saying ENGT430, which leads to ...

> ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3(LP) NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 1 GB GDDR3

Either way, what would lead to the inability to revert to nouveau? - that's my main worry for now.

This would be the proper driver for that gpu,
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driv.../196213/en-us/
Installation instructions can be found under the heading, "Additional Information" at the above link. Under that same heading you can find detailed installation instructions by clicking on "README."

As to returning to the nouveau driver, use the instructions in post number 2, above.

> /etc/modprobe.d/

Will give that a try.

Thanks for the driver link.

In terms of installing it, should I wrap the driver .run file in one of the pre-existing slackbuilds and change version numbers etc., or run it stand-alone?

EDIT - ah, I see you've added more info, thanks.

If its a GT430 you will need this drivers:
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/content/Dri...=uk&type=TITAN

As Slackware 15.0 is using kernel 5.15.x you will have to patch the drivers or it will fail to build the kernel drivers.
You can use this script to parch the drivers:
https://www.if-not-true-then-false.c...vidia-patcher/ and download the shell script "https://nvidia.if-not-true-then-false.com/patcher/inttf-nvidia-patcher.sh"

run the script like so:
# sh inttf-nvidia-patcher.sh -v 390.157

Note: acroding to your info about "ENGT430", Asus sais this is a "nVIDIA Display Driver V306.23 WHQL"
https://www.asusdriversdownload.com/...0-graphic-card

If checking this on Nvidia site i get this:
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driv...x/48693/en-us/

So i suspect that you want the nvidia 340.108 drivers for this card.
You can also patch the drivers for this card with the script i sent you:
# sh inttf-nvidia-patcher.sh -v 340.108

Hope this helps
Best regards:
Minime

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Thanks Minime.

It is never straightforward, is it?

> So i suspect that tyou want the nvidia 340.108 drivers for this card.

> You can allso patch the drivers for this card with the script i sent you:

Is that necessary, since that driver version is already available on slackbuilds, and would presumably be set up to work?:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15...acy340-driver/

But this is the driver I tried (which did built, but X would not start).

The nvidia-legacy340 SBo packages do not uninstall cleanly (at least back in Nov/Dec). Here's my notes from after briefly testing that driver on a w510 laptop before reverting.

After that I could start X again.

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Thanks fourtysixandtwo, useful info.

I believe cwiz is correct: the 390 version of nvidia is the one for this chip (GT430).

At this point, there are several different legacy versions of the official nvidia driver. Here's a quick overview from nVidia.

You'll want to use the most recent one you can that supports your hardware. If the 390 works, that'd be preferable to v340. As an added benefit, since v390 was officially supported right up until the end of 2022, the SlackBuild script available on SBo is already in a working state--no patching necessary!

Contrast the v340 script on SBo which is listed as UNMAINTAINED, and may need patching as minime said. (Personally, my hardware limits me to the even older 304, which nVidia declared EOL in 2017. I've been keeping it patched myself for the last several years.)

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JayByrd, thank you. Once I fix the reversion to nouveau I will try the 390 driver next.

JayByrd, thanks.

I futzed about with /usr/lib64/ GL stuff (even after tips from earlier in the thread about removing old links and reinstalling libglvnd there were 340 libs left over). I gave up trying to rewire everything and re-installed again.

Using the 390 drivers I have a complete system ready to work. Thanks to all contributors.

The interface for apps such as kstars and kdenlive now work smoothly, no lag, and google earth in the browser runs a treat. KDE speedy as I can ask for.