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nvidia package wrong documentation?



Hi all,


I am running a Lenovo T520 with two graphic cards on board: Intel an Nvidia.


As you see here it is an GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1)


--- snip ---

lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Gra
phics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1)

--- snap ---


The documentation requires the nvidia-legacy-390xx driver to use, but as hard as I try, this will not work.


However, what is working is the driver nvidia-legacy-340xx.


(I am using bumblebee)


This one is working like a charm, but can not be build with kernels newer than 5.10-18.*. So I have to stay with this kernel.


What I believe is, that the documentation from NVidia might be wrong and Nvidia told wrong, to say 390xx is for NVS4200.


On the other hand, it might be a bug, that the 340xx can not be build with newer kernels (I discovered the compilation is crashing due to some missing files. I filed a bugreport of this almost a year ago), which inhibits users, to use newer kernel-versions.


This is a pity especially for notebooks, where you can not exchange the GPU.


I just wanted to inform you, if someone got into the same trouble as me, wondering, why it does not run.


Thanks for reading this.


Oh, before someone tells: I do NOT want to use nouveau!


Best regards


Hans

 


 




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