Installing old NVDIA driver in latest stable Ubuntu to please VLC

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I’m trying to run VLC for playing some video but it does not launch. The problem seems to be related to my old graphic card (Nvidia GT 710). It is using the nouveau driver because the Nvidia 470 driver is no longer supported. As VLC only wants to talk to 470, it crashes on launch.

Is there a way to get the 470 driver from an old Ubuntu version repo and install it on 25.10?

Taking it from the other side: is there a way to make VLC working with nouveau?

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 9020
  • Memory: 22.0 GiB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4690 × 4
  • Graphics: NV106
  • Disk Capacity: 1.0 TB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: A25
  • OS Name: Ubuntu 25.10
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 49
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.0-8-generic
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How have you installed VLC? There’s a version available in the standard repositories, and another available in snap.

Whichever one you’ve installed, try uninstalling it and then installing the other one. That’s not guaranteed to work, but it’s worth a shot.

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Thank you. That is a clever suggestion. It was the snap version from App Center. I uninstalled it and tried the one from the standard repo.

$sudo apt install vlc

And voila, this is working! I can play video now.

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