I have LMDE and a GeForce 7600GS. I ended up installing the 3.6 kernel (previously 3.7) to get it to work. I'm not having much luck finding patches. Can someone direct me to which patches I should test (hopefully to get the latest liquorix kernel running, and I could test other kernels if you want). I'm guessing all patches work only for specific kernels?
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sgfxi should now be working for 3.7. and 3.8 for your card, which uses 304.64 driver. Ie, do nothing, just run: sgfxi

and let it do its thing.
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Thanks! It worked. Had to use the -f option. It said isgfxi didn't need an update. Maybe it updated when I installed to the 3.6 kernel? Until then I couldn't get it to work.
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In my testing here's what I found:

173.14.36 on 3.7.6 amd64 = Works (albeit sluggish on 7xxx cards)
173.14.36 on 3.8.0 amd64 = FAIL (it complains about being unable to determine kernel module file name)

304.64 on 3.7.6 amd64 = Works
304.64 on 3.8.0 amd64 = Works
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The drivers work as is on 3.6 kernels as no other special patches needed

Did you try again on 3.7.6 or 3.8?
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I'm interested in getting the 313 driver working on 3.8 too (for a friend) and am willing to test building it, but I don't have a card that is supported by 313, so I don't want to actually run nvidia-installer. I know how to extract and patch the NVidia .run package. Is there a way I can just build the driver (using 'make' for instance) without installing it?
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Okay, I was able to get the 313.18 driver to build on a 3.8 kernel (32 bit) with just the version.h symlink and this patch:
www.lwfinger.com/nvidia_patches/patch_nvidia_310.19.run_for_3.8
I just ran the nvidia-installer, which of course complained a lot and then failed when trying to insert the module because my video card is a GeForce 6150 LE and needs the 304 driver. But the log showed that the build completed successfully. For what it's worth.

And sgfxi -f very nicely reinstalled the 304 driver and all is well again.
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I installed 304.64 on the latest Liquorix 3.7 using sgfxi -f (sgfxi told me to do so) and it worked, which I didn't expect. All my kernels are Liquorix.
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version.h symlink and that patch is what sgfxi was using or is now using for 3.8 / 313.18 so sgfxi should be working in theory for 313.18 / 3.8
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Got it working with 3.8 too now.

But I had to use sgfxi -f as the normal call of sgfxi brought me :
This error was also in the logs. No further useable messages included in there.

regards

Reiner
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