I have an old NB that is planed to be used as a gaming machine for children. Among others, I plan to install older classics via Steam/Gog such as Portal, Sims2, Anno, NfS underground, ... So I guess 3D acceleration would be useful.
A Geforce 9650m GT with 1GB (aka G96CM) is installed in the NB. I have installed xubuntu in the latest LTS version 24.04 with kernel 6.8.
And that's where the problems start!
Via the driver search at Nvidia I found the 340 driver: https://www.nvidia.com/de-de/drivers/details/156190/ But it could not be installed with the install-script. Not even if I ignored the messages about the incompatible kernel.
Then i tried it via the Ubuntu driver management; "sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-XXX". But the oldest driver available there is “460”. And when I install it, I get again the message that the G96CM is only supported up to driver 340.
ben@KidsNB:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices
ben@KidsNB:~$ lspci | grep "VGA" 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96CM [GeForce 9650M GT] (rev a1)
ben@KidsNB:~$ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall [sudo] Passwort für ben: All the available drivers are already installed.
Therefore I have 2 questions:
Is the proprietary driver even worth it with such old HW, or is nouveau just as good?
What would I have to do to get the Nvidia driver to work?
Best regards and many thanks in advance
