Nvidia 304 legacy drivers

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Hi. I upgraded from leap 42.3 to 15.0 on my old Dell Laptop (XPS M1710, Geforce 7950gtx). Is there any chance the old 304 nvidia driver will be running on leap 15? I noticed that it is no longer available on the nvidia repo, so I tried to install it manually (304.137). Unfortunately it fails to build. Is there any workaround?

I also tried to use nouveau, but that gives me just a blank screen with a mouse when it starts sddm… Behaves the same regardless of the dm

nvidia-installer.log:
https://killkenny.spdns.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/kSrYbJXZGxLLm7E

(No upload function on this board or am I blind?)

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Noticing the same problem, where is the old 304 on leap 15? Anybody know why it’s gone? We had this in 42.3.

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AFAIK It is no longer supported and does not build with new kernels.

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Hi
You will need to patch and create a custom/patched run file (use the --help option with the run file to see the command);

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/968448/linux/304-135-driver-patched-to-build-on-4-x-kernels-4-9-onwards-/2

I see users have provided complete files, but would suggest patching it yourself, if you have problems, post back here :wink: