Mac Mini Mid 2010: Batocera does not detect Nvidia 320M card

ImortusSan

Hello!

I have been amazed at how easy it is to use batocera that I started making one for the Pi 4 and them jumped ship to older PC’s I got left over the years, and one of those machines e the Mac Mini for Mid 2010, but I ran into a problem were I cant get batocera to use Nvidia drivers.

I have use done the normal like deleting the # before the nvidia-driver=true, and I have used all 6 options,

nvidia-driver=true
nvidia-driver=legacy
nvidia-driver=legacy390

and all 3 togther with nvidia-prime=true

But I always get MESA.

What can I do to be able to use Nvidia Driver to get better performance.

Thank you for helping.

mikakunin

It’s easy to write, but does Nvidia 320M support the oldest driver (390) that can be used with batocera?
36beta example

nvidia-driver=true(520)
nvidia-driver=legacy(470)
nvidia-driver=legacy390(390)

Some users tried to implement a 340 driver, but it didn’t work.

ImortusSan

“It’s easy to write,” - I did all that before posting, It just did not work, It locked at a black screen with every Nvidia option never showing anything past the splash screen.

“Some users tried to implement a 340 driver, but it didn’t work.” - so people have already seen that they need older drivers for older GPU’s, maybe that’s something I need, but if they failed, humn.

Are the any other alternatives?

mikakunin

I looked it up.
The nvidia 390 driver doesn’t seem to support the Nvidia 320M.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/137276/
(This is just for viewing the support list)
It seems that there is no choice but to use the MESA driver as it is.

ImortusSan

I managed to fix the VSync issue even without the nvidia drivers but it’s a shame Batocera does not detect the Nvidia card, since it would greatly help on Dreamcast / Naomi / Atomishwave / PSP and Wii.