One of our elderly laptops ha a Geforce G105M installed.
Standard boot from USB-Stick to try to install linux mint tricia 19.3 on hard disk (HD) ended up in a blank screen.
Booting of linux mint tricia 19.3 from USB-Stick was only possible in “Compatibility Mode”.
After the installation to the HD, the boot from HD also ended up in a blank screen.
Anyhow via booting into “recovery mode” we managed to get the system run with a driver that seems to be “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau”.
The command ubuntu-drivers devices gives the following output:
If the nouveau driver is loaded you need to blacklist the module.
Points to hardware failure. But you got a lot of messages about the card spanning over more then one PCI bar.
Is you bios up to date? Do you have a bios option to enable “Above 4G decoding”?
Yes, the BIOS is the most up to date version (the Laptop is more than 10 years old).
No, there is no option like enabling “Above 4G decoding”.
The laptop has 3G installed.
Could the spanning over more than one PCI bars come from the second monitor which is attached to the VGA-port, but is not recognized with the nouvou driver?
Question:
When shall i blacklist the nouveau driver?
Before or after the installation of the nvidia-340 driver via ubuntu-drivers autoupdate ?
And there the “GeForce G 105M” is NOT listed under title The 390.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs., but more down the list under the title The 340.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs..
Would you nevertheless recommend to try using the 390 driver?
Thank you very much for your attention and your care.
I trust your research… maybe I didn’t look carefully enough.
Support for Fermi-based GPUs
Fermi-based GPUs are no longer supported starting with release 396. These GPUs will continue to be supported through the release 390 legacy branch, which will receive critical bug fixes and updates for compatibility with new Linux kernels and X server versions through the end of 2022.
[ 0.357569] pci 0000:01:00.0: [10de:06ec] type 00 class 0x030000
And because the PCI ID 0x06ec can only be found once, indicating the GeForce G 105M on the “legacy-gpu” page under the section The 340.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs., i would prefer to use the 340 driver, not testing with the 390 driver.
Would you agree or would you think it would be worth trying?