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Chrjst

Hi! I installed Batocera in an old computer (intel dual core, 2gb RAM). I’am having some troubles when I activate the nvidia-driver flag on true (by default works good). I have a GForce 9400GT board. When I press CTRL+ALT+F3 It show me this message:

# ‘DISPLAY’ environment variable not set… skipping surface info

error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.

ERROR at /build/output/build/vulkan-tools-v1.2.166/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:248:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties failed with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

xinit: giving up

xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

xinit: server error

Anyone else have this problem? I’ll wait for an answer. Thanks!

Atari

You may need to use the legacy build for a GPU that old. https://mirrors.o2switch.fr/batocera/x86_64/nvidia-legacy/

Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from just using the nouvaeu drivers (the default ones that load when the official nvidia drivers aren’t used) if they’re good enough for you.

Chrjst

Atari Thanks for answer me!

So…Should I reinstall everything and mount the image you gave me? Beacuse, actually, I installed Batocera Linux for very old pcs (x86).

Atari

Chrjst ah, that’s just the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs. That’s unrelated to your graphics card (the Nvidia drivers).
If your CPU is 32-bit, you’ll probably have to use the 32-bit legacy build here: https://mirrors.o2switch.fr/batocera/x86/stable/last/archives/20200527/
You’ll notice that’s Batocera v26, as that was the last one built with legacy drivers. You could ask in our Discord server if you’d like one of the devs to build the v31 32-bit build for you, but there may be a reason it’s not available at the moment.

Chrjst

Atari Thanks for everything! You were a great help! My last question related to the content you passed me: what should I do with the “boot.tar.gz” and “pcsx2-x86-5.26.tar.gz” files?

Atari

Just flash the batocera-5.26-x86-20200527.img.gz as you would any regular Batocera image file.

If you’d like to manually upgrade instead, it could cause problems as many config files were changed from then until now.