nvidia 690 gtx help pls

noob here, how does one go about installing a driver for a 690 gtx ninvidia? found a file from there website, but every time i try to run it, it returns "not root" and if i try to root first using "sudo -i" and then "sudo whoami" it returns root, but then the command line for installing it does not work any more. btw here is the command ninvidia wants me to run "sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.103.01.run" from what i understand the sh should ask for a login if your not a root user already?
12 Replies
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo5mo ago
we don't offer support for older nvidia drivers like 470 and it can't be installed by an end user sorry
Pig Style
Pig StyleOP5mo ago
will older amd cards work? i have a 290x saphire i can swap in
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo5mo ago
might work on desktop, will run terribly
Pig Style
Pig StyleOP5mo ago
why is that?
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo5mo ago
lack of support for modern vulkan extensions will require a very old version of proton, and will run most titles poorly
Pig Style
Pig StyleOP5mo ago
mostly i want to run factorio, would that still need to run through proton? proton is waht exactly? sorry for all the noob questions
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo5mo ago
yes, but that's opengl iirc so it'll run fine
Pig Style
Pig StyleOP5mo ago
with the adm 290x?
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo5mo ago
yep
Pig Style
Pig StyleOP5mo ago
and if i put the 290 in, do i need to install the drivers, or are they already packaged with the os? through some sort of application, considering you said it cant be done user side
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo5mo ago
no need to install drivers here, ever you can't install older nvidia, and AMD is built into the kernel
Pig Style
Pig StyleOP5mo ago
kk, well thank you, ill slap that 290 in and see what happens. how does one mark this as resolved? or does discord do such a thing?
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