New NVidia drivers now work on G210M (and probably on other mobile chips)
Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised - Ubuntu updated the driver for NVidia to version 190.53 from the Launchpad and they started up with minimal skinging of xorg.conf!
Prior to that, on a laptop (Acer Aspire 5739G with Nvidia G210M) on none of the distributions (tried by Ubuntu KK, Fedora 11-12, Mint, Mandriva 2010) the drivers did not run at all - the screen was black on boot and after a couple of minutes, CapsLock blinked Om, the laptop is overloaded. Maybe the handles are crooked, maybe I don’t know how to use Google, but I think that there shouldn't be such problems for the desktop OS.
After updating the drivers, the “6 screen problem” appeared in all its glory, when a lucky user is shown just 6 desktops in low resolution. Well, this problem can be easily solved by adding a line to the “Device” section of the xorg.conf file.
Prior to that, on a laptop (Acer Aspire 5739G with Nvidia G210M) on none of the distributions (tried by Ubuntu KK, Fedora 11-12, Mint, Mandriva 2010) the drivers did not run at all - the screen was black on boot and after a couple of minutes, CapsLock blinked Om, the laptop is overloaded. Maybe the handles are crooked, maybe I don’t know how to use Google, but I think that there shouldn't be such problems for the desktop OS.
After updating the drivers, the “6 screen problem” appeared in all its glory, when a lucky user is shown just 6 desktops in low resolution. Well, this problem can be easily solved by adding a line to the “Device” section of the xorg.conf file.
Option "ModeValidation" "NoTotalSizeCheck"')
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/78637/
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