Ubuntu 20.4.6 LTS Nvidia legacy 340 driver and external monitor

[Sorin Srbu]

On ons, 2024-08-28 at 21:05 +0100, Richmond via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Grizzlly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > Wednesday, August 28, 2024  at 17:08, Richmond via ubuntu-users
> > wrote:
> > Re: Ubuntu 20.4.6 LTS Nvidia legacy (at least in part)
> > 
> > <big snip to point>
> > 
> > > I chose 20.04 because had read that the driver I am using, legacy
> > > 340, is not supported with kernels after version 5.4. (And even
> > > 5.4 support is an unofficial patch maybe?).
> > I'm AFAICS using legacy 340 (nVidia GForce 8300GS) on both 22.04.4
> > & 24.04 both
> > 
> > kernels are in the 6's, I  did apt upgrade 24.04 couple of hours
> > ago so latest,
> > 
> > (on wrong box at moment to check)
> > 
> I am using NVIDIA-SMI 340.108    Driver Version: 340.108 on GeForce
> 8400M GS
> 
> After searching I found this:
> 
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdkosmari%2Fnvidia-340.108-updated&data=05%7C02%7Csorin.srbu%40ki.se%7C9a05ea3c4cf54118b45208dcc79ce1c3%7Cbff7eef1cf4b4f32be3da1dda043c05d%7C0%7C0%7C638604723826843929%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=c7Ky3ZEfdyJJJ1G3vEsuwFTJhUL9TGAvwu9NwcWVbAw%3D&reserved=0
> 
> "This repository provides scripts and patches for building the NVIDIA
> 340.108 drivers for recent Linux (6.0+) kernel."
> 
> 
> It seems there are community patches, but the driver is closed
> source, they are patching the kernel modules to make it compatible.



You use the SMI-driver because of CUDA?

IIRC CUDA should work with later kernels as well as later Ubuntu
releases than 20.04. I'm a little out of my depth here on that though
as I never used CUDA before.



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