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[Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Matteo,

I have an ul80vt, 13 years old and still in use as a dvd player, mostly.

It's running 18.04. I gave up on nvidia drivers after bumblebee stopped 
working (I think they last worked in 14.04).

Whenever the kernel is updated, I rebuild and insert a module called 
asus_nvidia that just disables the g210. It's not my work, and it may 
have been posted here before. I can post it again if needed.

I also have some scripts that call setpci to change screen brightness, 
which I bind to Meta-Home/PgUp/PgDwn/End. Never got the brightness fn 
keys to work in linux. I can post the scripts if you like.

Joel

On 3/12/22 3:09 AM, Matteo Malvezzi wrote:
> Hallo there, I wonder if anybody still reads this and is still using 
> this ancient laptop.
> Long story short I tried to update from ubuntu 14.04 where everything 
> worked, but unfortunately libraries were too old to keep up with 
> ev4erything new and shiny.
> Tried update to 16.04, but things went south quickly, decided to 
> reinstall 20.04.
> Had quite a few issues, the first is that the nvidia driver for the g210 
> is not compatible with modern kernels >5.4.
> There is a solution to this with
>
> |ppa:kelebek333/nvidia-legacy|
>
> With a modified driver, this works. However, I have to run the machine 
> with the sata set to compatibility because bumblebee won't work. If I 
> run enhanced I can't even get the intel ones to start properly and get a 
> login loop from the gdm.
>
> Anyone else still using this laptop and have working setup instructions?
>
> I can't even remember how to set up the brightness buttons for this 
> anymore, but that is a minor problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt.
>
>
>
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