Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know the NVIDIA 304.117 Legacy drivers for Linux have been released a while ago.
The NVIDIA 304.117 Legacy driver comes with upgrades for old graphic cards, working for all the graphics cards between GeForce 600 and GeForce 6, support for X.org Server ABI 15 (xorg-server 1.15), and fixed some other small issues.
In this article I will show you how to install the NVIDIA 173.14.39 Legacy drivers on the most popular Linux systems, including: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, Kwheezy, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and many others.
How to install the Nvidia Legacy 304.117 drivers on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ wget -c http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.117/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.117.run
$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.117.run
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.117.run
How to install the Nvidia Legacy 304.117 drivers on 64 bit Linux systems:
$ wget -c http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/304.117/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.117.run
$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.117.run
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.117.run
on xubuntu 12.04 problems with kernel 3.12.5
what to solve exactly?
how to resolve?