There is a new nVidia legacy driver 340.101 out to support new Xorg, but needs patch to be applied if the kernel version is greater than or equal to 4.9.0.

Patch is in this post:

devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/982052/linux/latest-nvidia-driver-340-101-builds-compiles-properly-but-fails-to-load-has-errors-with-linux-kernel-4-9-resolved-with-patch-/post/5039355/#5039355
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ok, added patch, should work, didn't test it.
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I'll give it a try within the next day or so and report back. Using special test options?
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OK tested sgfxi with 340.101 driver with 4.9.0 kernel and had success. No issues so far with this driver along with the patch.

When 4.10 rolls around we shall see if this will work with it or if there's a patch for 4.10.
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Could not pastebin my sgfxi.log: Could not add your entry to the paste database: Length of code is not allowed to exceed 150kB

Anyway, things were fine until installing kernel 5.6, and then I got ERROR: (245) The nvidia installer exited with the error: 1 when installing current nvidia 440.64

Tried (hacked away at) it a number of times, and then I sgfxi installed the debian-nvidia driver, which is 440.82 vs. what the script wants to install as 440.64 for current-nvidia (sic).

Before trying to bug hunt, I'd update the script to pull 440.82.

I did not check for debian package maintainer errors for 440.64 and kernel 5.6, but the bottom line is that the debian-nvidia driver installed correctly/without a problem, and the script should pull something later that 440.64

Thanks
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You have to provide details: inxi -Ga

I can't do anything without that information, otherwise i can't match internal IDs to anything. You must include inxi -Ga for me to be able to see what is happening.
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I double checked, that driver had been added, but I simply forgot to upload the sgfxi file when I added it, that's been corrected.
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The 565.57.01 beta driver should be added to sgfxi and there's patches for 6.12 kernel:

NV Developers forum:
forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/patch-for-565-57-01-linux-kernel-6-12/313260

Looks like the 560 driver won't be patched thus this request, and one change I'd suggest for sgfxi which would be to have a Patches folder where any custom patches could be added so when the script unpacks the .run file it also should look in the Patches folder for patches to apply and apply them to the driver source before the compile and install phase. Users also could put the patches there and name them for the driver version that they are for.

Thoughts?
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I missed that 565, will add it.

sgfxi has support for patching but I don't do it anymore, it's too much work, I can't test it, don't even own an nvidia card anymore.

patching is too time consuming so now sgfxi just delivers the drivers as is, and I try to make the kernel support tests handle when a driver is not supported by a new kernel.

If you let me know when that is, driver and kernel version, and last it worked on, that helps, since I don't track this stuff anymore, and nvidia does not really document it either.

patches are always cludges, I don't consider them to be solutions at all, just workarounds.
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Fair enough and that makes good sense. Thanks for adding the 565 driver and will test that tonight. I am considering switching to an AMD card but seems the amdgpu driver has been problematic as of late from what I been reading. Shame that NVIDIA has all but dropped the ball considering the rapid development cycle of the kernel which means many times there's ABI/API breaks which need addressing by vendors like NVIDIA/AMD for example.
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