With Old grafics you either use newest kernel possible and its integrated nouveau driver that is included in the kernel itself, or you use the proprietary driver with an ancient kernel version where still a version of that driver exists.
There are some projects that try to patch proprietary drivers for newer kernel, but never worked for me really…
Found sticking with rolling (arch) and nouveau the best experience on that old grafics machine
Finding a distro that worked with my ancient Nvidia was a challenge.
Ancient NVidia should be supported by Nouveau by now, no?
As far as I found, it doesn’t always work with adding the driver afterwards because Nvidia apparently, and some distros leave out the older stuff.
How are Nvidia leaving out older stuff for Nouveau? I don’t understand.
With Old grafics you either use newest kernel possible and its integrated nouveau driver that is included in the kernel itself, or you use the proprietary driver with an ancient kernel version where still a version of that driver exists.
There are some projects that try to patch proprietary drivers for newer kernel, but never worked for me really…
Found sticking with rolling (arch) and nouveau the best experience on that old grafics machine