Unfortunately, as people have already said, the most recent version of the closed-source driver will only support recent hardware. Nvidia periodically deprecates swathes of cards. Gentoo has a nice chart of which was the last driver version to support which GPU, plus other details. Your problems may be arising in part from the fact that your card has no Vulkan or OpenGL 4 support.

From my experience with a card from the generation previous to yours (NV40/Curie) for which I kept the proprietary drivers for a while after their best-before date had passed, it causes some trouble. The older drivers get to a point where they won’t work with newer kernels or X versions (in your case, you can use at most kernel 5.4 and Xorg 1.20, per nvidia ). I ended up keeping an old kernel until the accumulation of needed bug fixes got to be too much and I switched to Nouveau.

Long-term, it’s just more of a nuisance than it’s worth. Use Nouveau, turn off fancy effects or downgrade to software rendering on anything that’s glitchy, and buy an AMD card next time.

You will have to either use Nouveau, or install this with your favorite AUR helper

New proprietary drivers maintained in repos will not support a GPU that old.

The newest driver that supports the 210 is 340.108. https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/156163/en-us/

This may not be relevant since I have a different gpu and am on Ubuntu, but when I installed proprietary drivers I didn’t have display either because I was using a version of the driver that was too recent (whether due to dropped compatibility or a bug I don’t know). An older one might work!