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Good Day ALL!

I have a legacy gpu Quadro K5000 that wasn't supported by the nvidia drivers provided in the BookWormPup64 package manager, aside from nouveau of course, so I had to download the installer from nvidia website. Installation was flawless with no hiccups except I don't have the NVidia settings program. Is there one for legacy gpus? This is not a big deal as I can use xrandr but just wondering.

What specific Nvidia driver package?

Have you tried in a terminal?

fixmenus

That should update the menu.

Every Nvidia driver package from them, I have used, has also installed the Nvidia x server settings program.

It should be in menu ->Setup

^^^ +1.

@jp734 :-

I concur with my colleague. I've compiled several of these Nvidia .run files with Shinobar's getNvidia utility for my GT 710; without exception, the Nvidia Settings panel has always been present after compiling / installation, since it's an integral component of the .run file itself.

(I guess - technically - that since my card is no longer supported by the current drivers, this makes the GT 710 a 'legacy' GPU, as well.)

(*shrug.....*)

From what I understand of it, I believe that for Bookworm Pup - being Debian-based - you ought to be able to find this in the repos as a standalone application. I don't think it's linked to any specific driver, though I'm willing to be corrected on this one, as I don't run BWP64. At least, not yet....

Mike.

I downloaded "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.239.06.run". "fixmenus" didn't help but I searched for the executable file and found it in /usr/bin. Clicked on it and it worked. Why did it not create an entry on the menu?

@jp734 :-

Have a look in /usr/share/applications, and locate the nvidia-settings.desktop file. Open this up with Geany; what does the 'Categories' line read as?

Mine reads as:-

Categories=Application;Settings;X-SetupWizard;

....and after running

fixmenus

.....followed by

jwm -reload

.....it then shows up under Menu -> Setup as expected. If you perform a re-boot, these get run automatically as part of the boot process.

('Applications;Settings' are there for mainstream distro menus; 'X-SetupWizard' is the bit recognised by Puppy's Menu system...)

Mike.

@mikewalsh @bigpup

The .desktop file DID NOT exist in /usr/share/applications so I just created one (see below). Entered exactly what you have on yours on "categories". Did "fixmenus" then re-started jwm and it appeared under /menu/system instead of /menu/setup

No clue what NoDisplay=true does. I just made a copy of one of the desktop files, in this case the picom.desktop, and just left the line (and some other ones) there.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=nvidia-xsetting
GenericName=X-compositor settings
Comment=X-compositor window settings
Categories=Application;Settings;X-SetupWizard
Exec=nvidia-settings
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/nvidia48x32.png
Keywords=x;x11;compositor;
NoDisplay=true

Thanks a lot!