Nvidia legacy driver

Question

Hello,
it seems that as of 310.x my GeForce 6150 isn't supported anymore so the latest working driver for me is 304.64-1.
Will there be a legacy branch now? Because everyone with an older GeForce will get the nvidia update via pacman -Syu
and it will install but the PC won't boot into X anymore since it can't load the modul.
Regards,
blackout23
Last edited by blackout23 (2012-11-16 20:54:32)

Answer 1

In case you are using the LTS version I tweaked the PKGBUILD to build an lts version.
PKGBUILD
# $Id: PKGBUILD 171238 2012-11-16 21:39:23Z ibiru $
# Maintainer : Thomas Baechler <[email protected]>
pkgname=nvidia-304xx-lts
pkgver=304.64
_extramodules=extramodules-3.0-lts
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="NVIDIA drivers for linux, 304xx legacy branch"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.nvidia.com/"
depends=('linux>=3.0' "nvidia-304xx-utils=${pkgver}")
makedepends=('linux-lts-headers>=3.0')
conflicts=('nvidia' 'nvidia-96xx' 'nvidia-173xx' 'nvidia-lts' 'nvidia-all')
license=('custom')
install=nvidia-lts.install
options=(!strip)
if [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ]; then
_arch='x86'
_pkg="NVIDIA-Linux-${_arch}-${pkgver}"
source=("ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${_arch}/${pkgver}/${_pkg}.run")
md5sums=('6964415cf648a5f4f38117b168369de2')
elif [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
_arch='x86_64'
_pkg="NVIDIA-Linux-${_arch}-${pkgver}-no-compat32"
source=("ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${_arch}/${pkgver}/${_pkg}.run")
md5sums=('76007ed4b72afd334e26377b646f5f7e')
fi
build() {
_kernver="$(cat /usr/lib/modules/${_extramodules}/version)"
cd "${srcdir}"
sh "${_pkg}.run" --extract-only
cd "${_pkg}/kernel"
make SYSSRC=/usr/lib/modules/"${_kernver}/build" module
package() {
install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/${_pkg}/kernel/nvidia.ko" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modules/${_extramodules}/nvidia.ko"
install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modprobe.d"
echo "blacklist nouveau" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-lts.conf"
echo "blacklist nvidiafb" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-lts.conf"
sed -i -e "s/EXTRAMODULES='.*'/EXTRAMODULES='${_extramodules}'/" "${startdir}/nvidia-lts.install"
gzip "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modules/${_extramodules}/nvidia.ko"
.install
post_install() {
EXTRAMODULES='extramodules-3.0-lts'
depmod $(cat /usr/lib/modules/$EXTRAMODULES/version)
echo 'In order to use nvidia module, reboot the system.'
post_upgrade() {
EXTRAMODULES='extramodules-3.0-lts'
depmod $(cat /usr/lib/modules/$EXTRAMODULES/version)
post_remove() {
EXTRAMODULES='extramodules-3.0-lts'
depmod $(cat /usr/lib/modules/$EXTRAMODULES/version)