apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/nvidia/{print $2}') && apt-get install nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver nvidia-settings nvidia-vdpau-driver
I am struggling with a Quadro NVS 110M/Geforce Go 7300 that needs the 304xx legacy driver installed. I have removed everything nvidia and libglx at this point, and (again) tried the nouveau driver, which loads and runs, but the KDE desktop is unusable garbage -- can't even see enough of system-settings to adjust to other resolutions.
Is the above installation command sufficient on a system with no nvidia-kernel-source packages installed, or do the 3 packages described in the manual (nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-kernel-common, and nvidia-kernel-dkms) need to be installed first? And I see that there are now "legacy" versions for some of those packages, but I don't see "legacy-304xx" for all of them?
Thanks for a hint!
EDIT: Never mind -- I answered my own question. The answer is actually this:
(a) None of the 3 nvidia-kernel-source packages described in the manual should be installed -- absolutely nothing "nvidia" or "libglx" should be on the system.
(b) There is a problem installing nvidia-settings at the same time -- it depends on nvidia-alternative, which is not able to be pulled in. So I installed nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver and nvidia-vdpau-driver, and they came in and pulled in all needed dependencies, and the system is running KDE as it did prior to yesterday.
nvidia-settings is not terribly important for this user, so if it is not cleanly able to be installed with nvidia-alternative, I will skip that.