As many of you are aware, with the stock .run file, and a current kernel, the kernel module fails to build.

I found a patched .run file, downloaded it, and successfully installed the driver for my aging Nvidia on board chip set.

Here is where I found the files.

and the command to download the file:

and my chip set:

I have tried the nouveau driver, and it works, as long as I don't have the stock screensaver application running. I had several hard lock ups with this combination.

I hope this helps anyone running current on system with aging Nvidia hardware needing 304.137.

Your VGA chipset is the same as mine, even down to the "rev a2". Thanks to your advice, I'm posting this from Seamonkey, in Slackware64-current, runlevel 4, using nvidia-304.137.

I don't see how to give this guy any credit on LQ; I've moved my mouse cursor all over the post above, with no obvious way to do so. If anyone else can give him some credit on my behalf, please, do so.

you can click on the rep link and add to hes reputation

I would like to thank hem myself I now have the nvidia installed and working
great starting point

I don't see a "rep link" to click on. Which quadrant is it in?

You can either click on the "Yes" in the "Did you find this post helpful?" at the bottom right corner of the post, or you can click on the old-school scale at the bottom of the user's profile information on the post (should be the third icon over). The latter will allow you to write a message that only the user can see if you so desire.

for a 3rd way, you can click on the "Rep:" text in the user's profile information on the post (just below the count of posts, and to the left of a row of boxes scaled to the number of posts) This is an alternate to the "scale" icon method.

One small caveat, I saw this on 14.2 also, after installing 304.137, if I started VLC and possibly other applications, they would not show up on the desktop. Starting from a terminal showed an error with libvdpau. The fix is to re-install libvdpau with slackpkg.

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Sorry it's Rep it's under the mini profile on the left hand side of the post
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Oh, I just noticed you were wanting to credit the first post in a thread. The first post in a thread won't offer you the ability to say "Yes" to "Did you find this post helpful?", but the other methods will still work (clicking the scale or the Rep link under the user's name on the left of their post).

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My old PC here is 32 bit only and have not been able to make this work ever.
What version on linux, and what kind, 32 bit i386 or 64 bit was this possible on?
I have been banging into walls for over a week scouring the web to fix my same issue of not being able to install and the few times it does install, it shows terrible corruption like ubuntu 16.04 to 17.04 last versions to have build support for that driver. anytime you would click something, everything locks up too.

sdowney717,

This is a almost 3 year old thread. I feel your pain.

The Nvidia driver in question is an old Legacy driver. I did get it to build, however, I realised the best long term fix was to buy a newer supported video card and deactivate the old chip set on the mother board, and install a supported card.

The best thing you can do to get help here is to open your own thread, and not try to use this old thread. It will get more attention.

When you do, you need to provide more information. First of all, tell us what hardware you are trying to install on. You will find most distros today are 64 bit only, so its critical we know what hardware you have. There are still 32 bit systems around, just not the most popular ones.

So, make and model of the system in question, at a minimum. If you have access to a system, you can search on the make, model and find specs. This will tell us if you have a 32 bit only, or its 64 bit capable.

I hope this helps.