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Puppy 4.3.1 and nVidia Chipset
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LaneLester
Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Rural Georgia, USA |
After someone on another forum reminded me of my past fondness for Puppy Linux, I downed and burned version 4.3.1 for a fresh look. With the exception of Sabayon Linux, no distro I've tried automatically loads the nVidia driver needed by my motherboard's chipset, and Puppy is in with the majority here. I had a version 173 driver in a .pet (Puppy's format) file, but installing it just killed X back to the command line. I think my fairly new motherboard needs the 185 driver, but I don't remember how I got the NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet that I used and which didn't work. Later: I found a thread with a link to some .pet's and downloaded the 185 version. But when I tried to install it, Puppy said it couldn't do it. I'll try a fresh download from inside Puppy where I am now. OK, that worked, and it's installed. Now to restart X and hope for the best. Even later: I'm back in Ubuntu Karmic, because the 185 .pet killed X just like the 173 .pet did. Maybe I'll try copying the xorg.conf from Ubuntu to Puppy. Lane |
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4734 Location: Manila |
Puplets ready with compiz (3d effects) have Nvidia drivers ready. Examples are Tipsy puppy (see the 4.13 version) and wNOP. _________________ Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only). |
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LaneLester
Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Rural Georgia, USA |
Well, I thought I posted a reply to this thread of my eventual success, but I guess it didn't "take." I reinstalled Puppy with a frugal install, found the 190 driver, and it installed just fine. Lane |
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