nvidia-304

This repository contains fixed packages and patches to use the Nvidia 304.137 driver on newer Linux distros (up to kernel 6.8)

Inside each distribution folder you will find tutorials for generating the packages and installing the driver

Supported distros

Debian

• 10/11/12/13?/Sid?

Ubuntu

• 20.04/22.04/23.10/24.04?

Mageia

• 9

Archlinux/Manjaro

• Archlinux using linux(6.8) and linux-lts(6.6)
• Manjaro all kernel variants 4.19/5.4/5.10/6.1/6.6/6.8

Opensuse

• Leap 15.4/15.5
• Tumbleweed

Fedora

• 39/40?

Issues

XFCE or XFWM4 showing black screen with cursor only:
Run the command below or disable the window composer before installing the driver
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s xpresent
If the above command fails, run this
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "xpresent" --create

I can't use the driver on Debian 32 bits the installation fails:
Most likely you need to compile a kernel with LKDTM(CONFIG_LKDTM) enabled

Firefox crashes for no apparent reason:
Go to about:config and change the webgl.disabled parameter to true

Resolution locked at 960x540:
Comment out or delete the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines in xorg.conf

Xorg segfault:
Add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 as kernel parameter

LightDM does not start:
Add logind-check-graphical=false in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[LightDM]
logind-check-graphical=false

Segmentation faults when opening QT5 applications or crashes when starting the graphical environment:
If when you click on QT5 applications and nothing happens or the graphical environment does not want to start, check the system logs by running dmesg

[ 827.938059] konsole[3683]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007ffcd745b928 error 14 in konsole[55b9167e0000+4000]  
[ 827.938072] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.

If you see lines similar to this, run the command below

Debian amd64:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 /etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu

Debian i386:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 /etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so.1-i386-linux-gnu

Ubuntu:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.304.137

Mageia:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib64/nvidia304/libGL.so.1

Archlinux/Manjaro:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.304.137

Opensuse:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.304.137

Fedora:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib64/nvidia-304xx/libGL.so.304.137