Help finding Nvidia drivers - eviltoast

Hi, I would like to now if there is any closed source nvidia driver (the better one for gaming) for Nvidia Quadro FX1800. I wanted to show my brother some of linuxon my old laptop and I don’t want to make him bugged off by lack of gaming on it.

  • multi_flexi@lemmy.film
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    1 year ago

    You need version 340. IDK what distro you have so I cannot tell you how to install it, or if it is even available.

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      1 year ago

      Most distributions will work using the .run file. They just needs to make sure to kill any display manager running before installing.

  • American_Jesus@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    On what distro?

    Latest official driver for that GPU is nvidia-340, which is unsupported by majority of distros.

    Some distros like Archlinux based or Manjaro you can install it from AUR, other may have some unofficial repository.

    Don’t use the installer .run if don’t know what you doing, it can probably break on kernel update, only on last case.