nvidia-304

This repository contains fixed packages and patches to use the Nvidia 304.137 driver on newer Linux distros (up to kernel 6.10)

Inside each distribution folder you will find tutorials for generating the packages and installing the driver

Supported distros

Debian

• 10/11/12/13?/Sid(tested on unstable 2024/07/02)

Ubuntu

• 20.04/22.04/24.04

Mageia

• 9

Archlinux/Manjaro

• Archlinux using linux(6.9) and linux-lts(6.6)
• Manjaro all kernel variants 4.19/5.4/5.10/6.1/6.6/6.9/6.10
  (6.9 and 6.10 is broken nvidia_drm.modeset=1 does not work properly "when I tested on July 1st")
  The kernel parameter initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init should work (untested)

Opensuse

• Leap 15.4/15.5/15.6?
• Tumbleweed

Fedora

• 39/40?

Issues

XFCE or XFWM4 showing black screen with cursor only:

Run the command below or disable the window composer before installing the driver
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s xpresent
If the above command fails, run this
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "xpresent" --create

I can't use the driver on Debian 32 bits the installation fails:

Most likely you need to compile a kernel with LKDTM(CONFIG_LKDTM) enabled

Firefox crashes for no apparent reason:

Go to about:config and change the webgl.disabled parameter to true

Resolution locked at 960x540:

Comment out or delete the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines in xorg.conf

sudo sed -i 's/HorizSync/#HorizSync/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo sed -i 's/VertRefresh/#VertRefresh/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Xorg segfault:

If I'm not mistaken, this parameter is necessary since kernel version 5.17/5.18

Add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 as kernel parameter
initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init may also be necessary

LightDM does not start or black screen:

Add logind-check-graphical=false in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[LightDM]
logind-check-graphical=false

or use the command below

sudo sed -i 's/\[LightDM\]/[LightDM]\nlogind-check-graphical=false/' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Chromium-based browsers don't work properly:

Start with the --disable-gpu parameter
Or create a file named chrome-flags.conf/chromium-flags.conf (depends on the browser) with the content --disable-gpu
in ~/.config or ~/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config (if using flatpak) *Replace com.google.Chrome with your browser

echo -e "--disable-gpu" >> ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf
#you can create symbolic links too
ln -s ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf

#Chrome flatpak
echo -e "--disable-gpu" >> ~/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config/chrome-flags.conf

This should also work with electron-based applications.
But creating the electron-flags.conf or electron30-flags.conf file (replace 30 with the version of electron that the app was built with)

KDE Plasma 6 Workaround (tested on Archlinux):

Add the libGL.so.1 library to the libQt6Gui.so.6 using patchelf
sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6

Add this in .config/kdeglobals

[QtQuickRendererSettings]
RenderLoop=basic
SceneGraphBackend=opengl

Put this in /etc/environment

KWIN_EXPLICIT_SYNC=0
__GL_YIELD=USLEEP
__GL_FSAA_MODE=0
__GL_LOG_MAX_ANISO=0
KWIN_OPENGL_INTERFACE=glx
KWIN_NO_GL_BUFFER_AGE=1

For arch-based distros only
You can create a hook with these parameters so whenever the qt6-base package is updated it will always receive nvidia libGL.so.1

[Trigger]
Operation=Install
Operation=Upgrade
Type=Package
Target=qt6-base

[Action]
Description=Patching Nvidia libGL in libQt6Gui.so.6
Depends=patchelf
When=PostTransaction
Exec=/usr/bin/patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6

Add the content in /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ to a file with the .hook extension, example: novideo.hook
Also don't forget to uncomment the HookDir line in the pacman.conf file

Applications giving segmentation fault, black screen or not recognizing the driver:

Try starting them with the LD_PRELOAD parameter pointing to the driver's libGL.so.*
Example in ubuntu:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.304.137 PPSSPPSDL

Flatpak Fix:

It may be necessary to load libGL.so.304.137 along with the program for it to work. For this, you can pass the --env argument next to the flatpak run command
Example of a 64-bit application:

flatpak run --env=LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL/nvidia-304-137/lib/libGL.so.304.137 org.ppsspp.PPSSPP

Or apply the variable globally across all flatpaks by creating the global file at ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides

echo -e "[Environment]\nLD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL/nvidia-304-137/lib/libGL.so.304.137:/app/lib/i386-linux-gnu/GL/nvidia-304-137/lib/libGL.so.304.137" >> ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides/global

Segmentation faults when opening QT5 applications or crashes when starting the graphical environment:

If when you click on QT5 applications and nothing happens or the graphical environment does not want to start, check the system logs by running dmesg

[ 827.938059] konsole[3683]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007ffcd745b928 error 14 in konsole[55b9167e0000+4000]  
[ 827.938072] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.

If you see lines similar to this, run the command below

Mageia:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib64/nvidia304/libGL.so.1

Opensuse:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.304.137

Fedora:

sudo patchelf --add-needed /lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib64/nvidia-304xx/libGL.so.304.137