Your efforts to solve this are admirable. This looks like a pretty old card, which makes me wonder about it working well with the latest Linux systems/kernels. I had a similar problem with my Nvidia 6150se card. Actually, it's not a card but rather the on-board graphics my old Gateway desktop came with.
You may find my thread describing my problems with this helpful:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/video...inux-lite/
What I learned was that older graphics at some point just are too out of date for newer operating systems. My computer came with Vista. It still runs windows 7 fine. Windows finds a driver that will work and installs it. On Linux you need to do this yourself. It turned out that the latest Nvidia driver that would work with this system is the 304. And Linux Lite 3.8 is the latest system that will allow it to be installed. I'm doing fine with 3.8 for now, but in a year I'll have to figure something else out, like buying a new video card.
Hope this gives you some leads to follow. I would check out the links others provided, especially to the Ubuntu forum, where you can find a tutorial on how to install older drivers. I was able to get right up to the point of installing the 304 driver on Lite 4.8, using the non-GUI terminal method, but then got the same messages you got, about unmet dependencies. Fortunately Lite 3.8 is still supported for another year.
You may find my thread describing my problems with this helpful:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/video...inux-lite/
What I learned was that older graphics at some point just are too out of date for newer operating systems. My computer came with Vista. It still runs windows 7 fine. Windows finds a driver that will work and installs it. On Linux you need to do this yourself. It turned out that the latest Nvidia driver that would work with this system is the 304. And Linux Lite 3.8 is the latest system that will allow it to be installed. I'm doing fine with 3.8 for now, but in a year I'll have to figure something else out, like buying a new video card.
Hope this gives you some leads to follow. I would check out the links others provided, especially to the Ubuntu forum, where you can find a tutorial on how to install older drivers. I was able to get right up to the point of installing the 304 driver on Lite 4.8, using the non-GUI terminal method, but then got the same messages you got, about unmet dependencies. Fortunately Lite 3.8 is still supported for another year.