Hello @Colonel_Panic
I see you have an older nvidia nforce chipset so is probably onboard chip? So you’ll most likely have to stick with the open source Nouveau drivers not the nvidia drivers. What are you installing it onto the 250 GB drive? This is also an MBR system. Maybe you can get the install log next time and post it here. It is the Clamares install log.
Hi Rick, thanks for replying. Yes it is an online chip; the motherboard dates from about 2010.
It may be a day or two before I can get back to trying another installation but I’ll definitely do it (and post the logs). And yes, the installation was to hard drive.
Best,
CP .
BTW, will the graphics card drivers you can download from the NVidia website work in Endeavour?
I just know that that driver version is very old in Linux and i don’t think is being supported anymore so hopefully it works fine on Nouveau. Whether the older driver can be installed i can’t answer.
today GitHub has hard network errors and so it must be this we do load some scripts and files directly from GitHub on netinstall if installer can not get the files it will fail to install.
GeForce 7 series cards and older [NV6x, NV4x and lower] do not have a driver packaged for Arch Linux
Thanks for replying. Is Endeavour mainly aimed at more recent machines then?
I can get a good resolution (1680x1050) in ArchEX, which is also based on Arch, so if there is a problem with running Arch-based distros on my computer due to lack of graphics drivers in Arch itself I know it can be overcome; however, I don’t know enough to be able to do it myself.
Hi, back again. Is it possible to use a video driver from another distro in EndeavourOS, if video is up and working well in that other distro, and if so how would I go about doing it?
I was thinking of Manjaro, because it also runs on Arch, but Slackware video drivers seem to work well too…
the only difference on the driver itself is the version and in case of non-arch-based another package format incompatible with arch.
And in the case of Nvidia drivers, they need to be built against the running kernel, so incompatible in that way too.
Thanks for replying. So, what I need to do is to find out which driver version the other distro (where the video display seems to work well) is using, and then download that version of the driver from the NVidia site and build it in Endeavour?
[EDIT: I’ve just noticed that you’ve got a revised version of 2020.9 coming out very soon, so I think I’ll wait for that one before trying anything different. In any case. I think the driver I need is the open source Nouveau one, not the main NVidia one.]