Ubuntu 20.4.6 LTS Nvidia legacy 340 driver and external monitor

[Grizzlly]

Wednesday, August 28, 2024  at 17:08, Richmond via ubuntu-users wrote:
Re: Ubuntu 20.4.6 LTS Nvidia legacy (at least in part)

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>I chose 20.04 because had read that the driver I am using, legacy 340, is not
>supported with kernels after version 5.4. (And even 5.4 support is an
>unofficial patch maybe?). 

I'm AFAICS using legacy 340 (nVidia GForce 8300GS) on both 22.04.4 & 24.04 both 

kernels are in the 6's, I  did apt upgrade 24.04 couple of hours ago so latest, 

(on wrong box at moment to check)