[HowTo] get legacy 340xx NVIDIA drivers back

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[HowTo] Compile old/legacy NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers [2020-12-30 Update Issue]

With the Stable-Update on the 2020-12-30 we decided to Remove outdated Nvidia Drivers. This resulted in a massive negative feedback and broken systems. [image] Nvidia informed about their support timeframes a while ago. 390xx will be supported through the end of 2022. However they are slow in providing needed patches. The Linux community patched them so far. 340xx got dropped already. Officially they only support till Kernel 5.4 and Xorg-Server 1.20 series. In AUR you may find patches till 5.…

That one also has additional info/tips for older kernels 4.14 and 4.19 .