Now I clearly understand. The present kernel is 6.10 I think. So… 
It would be possible to use your nvidia card, and its propietary driver , if you installed a very old Linux release with a kernel prior to 5.19.
What you would then find is that you would not be able to use current releases of various packages. You would be constrained to an old frozen system, without even security updates… That would be OK if you only used it offline.
Not quite what you would want, I am sure.
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Can you mention ur gpu @Skywalker71
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No, I am trying to learn Linux From Scratch!!! About the only real thing I have learned, so far is that I need a lot better machine than I have to compile Linux From Scratch. I am working on that but it will take awhile!!!
So this project will have to be put on hold, until I can update or find a better machine!!!
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After all that fuss over installing Nvidia driver for running Davinci, you are asking me this question!!! 
My current GPU is a very well maintained fossil… Nvidia GT 730 2GB DDR4. But I will replace it soon, probably with an AMD RX 550 4GB.
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But the nvidia 730 has very good drivers. I was even able to run CUDA ( although not the latest version ) on Pop OS. Did u try it? I even get the driver updates. Ita Ncidia-470-driver.
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Good luck!
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Thanks!!!
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Yes. I have installed Mint as Pop OS was doing some weird things in my machine like, during the installation, the display resolution became so low that everything on screen got extremely big and I couldn’t see anything clearly. So I had to leave it. May be my hardwares are not compatible with Pop OS. And in Mint also, I am not getting my monitor’s default resolution on this 730 graphics card which is 1980x1080. The 470 driver only giving me 1600x900. So, today, as per advice given by @kovacslt, @nevj and others, I have bought a new Sapphire Pulse AMD RX 550 4GB DDR5 grsphics card which is within my budget. I haven’t installed it yet. After installation of the card, the driver, I will update how things are going on.
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My pop system works fine with 470 driver and 1080p resolution. Dont decided to leave an OS by the things which happen during installation. Seems like u didnt even install it completely. Install it, then install the 470 driver and then change the resolution and then tell.
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How can you install a linux distro if the resolution gets 480x640 and you can see only partial desktop which you cannot move or cannot access anything?! May be it is for advanced systems and my system is an outdated one as per its expectations. Anyway, I have installed Mint already and transferred my Forefox and Thunderbird data in it and I have also installed my new Sapphire Pulse RX 550 4GB DDR5 graphics card and I didn’t have to install anything. Mint has detected the card without installing any driver as the free driver for AMD GPUs is embedded in the Linux kernel. But Davinci haven’t recognised this card at all. Looks like I have to install AMD’s proprietary driver for this GPU which I have already downloaded. I will install the proprietary driver tomorrow. So, as I am an user mainly, not a Linux developer or distro hopper and I need a stable, non-problematic Linux which I can use for work and personal use. So, currently Mint is fulfilling that need. If in future I change my PC hardwares to newer versions, then I will try Pop!_OS and probably Pop!_OS will also become less problematic. 
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Good thay u solved it by using the new card. Hope it helps u use linux easily and try more distros. Although I have a qs, when the resolution changed to 480p while installation, did u try changing it from the displays settings in any os u tried to install? Or u used only the installation option instead if live cd?
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“very old” ? - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 isn’t “very old” and it’s running kernel 5 (one I’m looking at now is running 5.14.0-427)
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Most Linuxes would be unable to do updates on that.
Especially driver updates.
I notice that Gentoo and Void keep a 5.14 kernel.
Is there something special about it… very stable maybe?
I can boot that kernel, but its driver modules do not run my graphics card.
Your RHEL is probably a headless server.
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I would think you might see 5.15. It’s an LTS kernel.
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completely headless - it’s an EC2 instance in AWS…
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Thanks, I did not know about LTS kernels.
Everything from 5.10 to 6.6 has an EOL of Dec 26?
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That is wrong… they keep 5.15 kernels…Thanks @pdecker
Gentoo has 5.15, 6.6, 6.11
so it follows the LTS kernels
Void has
# ls /boot/vm*
/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.219_1 /boot/vmlinuz-5.18.19_1 /boot/vmlinuz-6.5.13_1
/boot/vmlinuz-5.11.22_1 /boot/vmlinuz-5.19.17_1 /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.48_1
/boot/vmlinuz-5.12.19_1 /boot/vmlinuz-6.0.19_1 /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.54_1
/boot/vmlinuz-5.13.19_1 /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.106_1
/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.161_1 /boot/vmlinuz-6.3.13_2
quite collection , and that is immediately after
vkpurge rm all
I am not sure how Void decides what to keep , but it is more than the LTS kernels.
My MX only has 6.5 and 6.9… I think that is what I chose, so no automatic keeping there
My Devuan only has 6.1.0-12, 6.1.0-13, 6.1.0-23 … it decided that , I did not intervene.
FreeBSD only keeps one kernel.
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Yes you can run the 5.15 kernel with Gentoo, but to make it work any kernel over 5.15 will have to be masked or never update Gentoo, and one would more than likely have too manually install the kernel.
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