@VAA,
I sincerely hope that I haven't supplied you with incorrect information. I apologize if I did; I promise that it was unintentional.
After searching more carefully on Nvidia's website (it is confusing
), it looks like the driver you need to download is ver. 304.1190. (Please read my comments to TracyTiger below).
Hopefully one of the experts (gapan, mimosa, laprjns, et al.) can provide some advice on how to successfully install the proprietary driver. I'm not clear what went wrong, or why, and I don't want to give you more bad advice. (It appears to me that you followed the correct steps).
@TracyTiger,
Yes, I have the same chipset as you, but mine is integrated into a MSI K9N6PGM2-V motherboard. I'm currently running Salix 14.0.1 Xfce (32-bit) and am using the open-source Nouveau driver, which is working fine -- even with Firefox 24.3.0 ESR (no freezes/hangs, like in Fedora).
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david[~]$ glxinfo | grep -i vendor
[ ... ]
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
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david[~]$ glxinfo | grep renderer
[ ... ]
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV4C
This weekend, I downloaded the new 14.1 Xfce release (32-bit) and I plan to install it on a spare partition, but I'm not quite ready to do that. I will post back and provide some details after I finish.
About the dang-blasted Nvidia website: The "driver finder" is confusing. I did my initial search fairly quickly (while at work), but now that I can search more leisurely at home, I get different results depending on my selection criteria:
The Nvidia website instructs me to download ver. 325.15 (Linux 32-bit [27 MB]) after selecting
GeForce > GeForce 6 Series > Linux 32-bit > English (US)
[N.B.: I suspect -- but am not 100% certain -- that this is the current version of the driver, not the Legacy version].
However, when I begin by selecting
Legacy > nForce 4 Series > nForce 430/GeForce 6150SE > the only "Operating System" choice is
Windows (different versions)!
If I use the "
Beta and Older Drivers" link further down the webpage, I get these results:
ver. 304.1190 (released Jan. 23, 2014)
(I did not see this link when I first searched, and I believe that it is probably the correct link for the Legacy driver).
Here are two screenshots which I hope will clearly illustrate this:
I read the post by Erik_FL; he sounds knowledgeable but I wish he would've provided more details about why he thinks that the 304.1190 driver is the wrong choice. At this point, my instinct is to try installing 304.1190 in Salix 14.1 Xfce, and see what happens ... I will also double-check my Fedora 20 LXDE partition, where I have the proprietary Nvidia driver installed (and working fine), and report back what version number it is. <
I checked; it's ver. 304.119 (32-bit). >
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Edit:
I just finished installing 14.1 (32-bit) on my test partitions [a root partition of 12 GB, and a /home of 25 GB]. It looks very nice, and it booted up perfectly using Nouveau. I'm posting this from the default Midori browser. I've downloaded the Nvidia 304.119 proprietary driver but will wait until tomorrow evening to try installing it. Otherwise, as tired as I am now, I'll just make careless mistakes ... >
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that when the newest nVidia driver failed to work that the fix was often to install the previous version.