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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Quote Originally Posted by TheFu View Post
    Running a kernel from over a year ago is a terrible security decision. There are multiple remote attacks in the wild.
    If installing those packages works, it would be using a recent kernel, with DKMS as the glue for the modules. It's what DKMS was invented for.

    It will work until there is a binary incompatibility change between the kernel and the modules (which may have already happened). Neither the people responsible for the blob nor the people responsible for the kernel are going to fix it after that, so then it's nouveau or nothing.

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Quote Originally Posted by incorporeo View Post
    Since I'm just interested in putting the 'NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300' to work as a VGA card, is it wise to go forward and try an installation using these files on Kubuntu 18.04?
    Absolutely not. The 173.xx driver won't work on 18.04 (the kernel and Xserver versions are too new for it). Dead end.

    I'm just interested in putting the 'NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300' to work as a VGA card.
    I'm not sure what you mean by this. You can prevent the nouveau driver from loading and use a generic vesa driver, but you will lose video acceleration and performance will suffer greatly. That's probably not what you want.

    Quote Originally Posted by CatKiller
    It will work until there is a binary incompatibility change between the kernel and the modules (which may have already happened)
    Yes, it already happened. The kernel changes aren't so problematic because patches can often be made since that part of the nvidia driver is open source. It's the Xserver changes that really stop community effort from moving forward.

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Sorry to interrupt your conversation, fellows, but I solved the problem

    Please follow this link HERE, where I explain in detail what I did.

    If this may lead to any security risks, I would be thankful if you say so.

    Best regards, and beers for all!

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    There are security risks whenever it is possible for the wrong code to be called o a program to crash or random code to be invoked.

    Finding a way to cause a program to crash is the first step in security testing. From that point, either inserting other "bad" code or just causing crashes over and over to deny the program from running can often be the goal.

    Video driver issues are some of the worst because they run inside the kernel and are access by Xorg running as root.

    If all the code entry points align and all the parameters align with correct types and boundary limits, then only normal driver issues would exist. I don't know how stable those APIs are and because nVidia is closed source, there isn't much we can do to analyze it. On my system, there are 13 libraries, each would need to be checked. https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newha...pilecycle.html might be helpful, if someone was interested. It will be hard, since all the symbols will be stripped from any commercial code.

    But in the end, if you think this is a viable solution, great. Please mark the thread as solved using the threat tools button near the top.

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Quote Originally Posted by incorporeo View Post
    Sorry to interrupt your conversation, fellows, but I solved the problem
    Please follow this link HERE, where I explain in detail what I did.
    It looks like you blacklisted nouveau and are using generic vesa driver (and you unnecessarily played around with dead end 173 driver). I guess if you have dual Xeons, they make up for lack of graphics accel. Look at glxinfo to see which driver you are using:
    Code:
    glxinfo -B

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Hello @Temüjin

    I ran
    Code:
    glxinfo -B
    and the following report appears:

    Code:
    name of display: :0
    display: :0  screen: 0
    direct rendering: Yes
    Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
        Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
        Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
        Version: 18.0.5
        Accelerated: no
        Video memory: 7977MB
        Unified memory: no
        Preferred profile: core (0x1)
        Max core profile version: 3.3
        Max compat profile version: 3.0
        Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
        Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
    OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits)
    OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.5
    OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
    OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
    OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
    
    
    OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
    OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
    OpenGL context flags: (none)
    
    
    OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
    OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
    Please feel free to give me an opinion about it.

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Are you running Ubuntu inside a VM? If so, the physical GPU doesn't have anything to do with that.

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    Actually I never used any Virtual Machine.
    I even don't know how such thing can be done.

    The only thing I have in this particular PC is a 3-boot with Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and recently, Kubuntu.

    I realized, however, that the driver was signed as VMware...
    But this was now, when I saw the report on my last post.

    I believe this may be strange, but it's a fact.

    UPDATE:
    I believe this may be due to a known bug. Just a thought.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...g/+bug/1752938

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1802353
    Last edited by incorporeo; January 19th, 2019 at 01:08 AM.

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    Re: NVIDIA headache: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

    The point is that you aren't using nvidia drivers as Temüjin guessed.

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