Stuck trying to install nvidia drivers in Lupu 5.1.0

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Stuck trying to install nvidia drivers in Lupu 5.1.0

#1 Post by Brown Mouse »

If I select divers from quickpet and click on'test your graphic card',it identifies the correct graphic card and I can install the correct drivers.I've then tried to follow the procedure to load the new drivers,so far without luck.
The menu entry is there under the setup tab as it should be but when I click on it says driver has not been installed and must be run from the xconfig file.
How can I get it to run?

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#2 Post by Jim1911 »

It seems like you used a driver from a wrong location. Try Quickpet and select and reinstall your driver, then it should remind you that it's going to a black screen and that you should select probe to find your new driver, then select the desired screen resolution.

You could also go to a prompt using the shutdown menu, then at the prompt run xorgwizard, select choose, type nvidia, then set desired resolution, then xwin to return to desktop.

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#3 Post by Béèm »

At first sight you followed the correct procedure.
- identify the driver for your card
- select the one indicated (in your case nvidia) with the button below the check one
- then everything is automatic

One thing can go wrong, that you don't have enoughr space in the save file. You need a lot of space for this install.
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#4 Post by Brown Mouse »

Thanks for the reply's.
Still no luck and I've tried six times using both recommendations for the drivers in quickpet.Each time I reboot, the nvidia drivers don't function and the task bar is missing and I'm also unable to get a network connection or get it to recognize my network card.
When this happens I have to use a backup pupsave file to restore the settings.

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#5 Post by Béèm »

What is the size of your save file?
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#6 Post by Brown Mouse »

Béèm wrote:What is the size of your save file?
It's 670mb Beem.

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#7 Post by Béèm »

What is the size of your RAM?
Do you use a swapfile/partition? If yes how big?
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#8 Post by Brown Mouse »

Beem

I have only 1gb ram but two swap partitions,one of which is 4gb.

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#9 Post by Béèm »

With 1GB of ram no swap is needed. It could slow down the PC.
Brown Mouse wrote:The menu entry is there under the setup tab as it should be but when I click on it says driver has not been installed and must be run from the xconfig file.
This is from your initial post and I don't understand it. I didn't have this.
Can you take a screen shot of this and post it here?
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#10 Post by Brown Mouse »

Yeah but I need the swap partition for my other PCLinuxOS's
These were created when I had 2gb of ram.

I cant take a screen shot as I only saw this in one time out of six but the menu entry was in the setup tab.When I clicked on it,it said nvidia drivers are not installed please run.

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#11 Post by Béèm »

OK I understand for the swap.

I know where the menu tabs are, I installed the nvidia 256 one in my PC Desktop.

There are 3 drivers for the different hardware. Which one did you choose?
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#12 Post by Brown Mouse »

Beem

I tried the ones which quickpet recommended for my Geforce En210 card and these are 173.14.25 and also 256.35.

Edit
I begin to wonder if these drivers only work after a clean install??

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#13 Post by Béèm »

I tried the 256 one, as said.
Please describe point by point what happens starting with selecting the version of your choice.
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#14 Post by Brown Mouse »

Beem

I think I will have another try tomorrow and write it all down as I go.It leaves me without a network connection every time I do it and says it cant detect any network card which complicates matters.I've tried probe ,Choose and every option going with the same results.

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#15 Post by Béèm »

OK.
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#16 Post by Brown Mouse »

Hi Beem

Seventh attempt at installing nvidia drivers with the same results.This is the procedure I follow.

1)From 'quickpet' click to test graphic card
2)select driver 173.14.25
3)Download driver &click ok to confirm install.
4)Click yes to exit x windows system to Xorgwizard
5)Screen goes black and then automatically detects correct resolution.

At this point everything is fine but if I then start for example Google Earth,it says it cant detect the right driver to run and closes down.

If I then reboot I'm left with no task menu and cant get any network connection.

If I exit to Xorgwizard and use probe,I cant get x to start in any resolution.
If I use 'choose' option and type nvidia still the same and I'm also seeing these two error messages along the line.

Warning:Could not open init/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko
Fatal:Could not open initrd/kernel/driver/hid/usbhid/.ko



This is a tough one I think

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#17 Post by Béèm »

Brown Mouse, always report the precise steps and information when you report a problem as you did now in the last post. Hope you take that advice for the future.

Now back to your problem.

Apparently you followed the correct procedure.
Maybe your PC can't handle it. You didn't specify the full specs of your PC.

You could first see the puppysearch link in my sig if you find a solution when searching on 'google earth in lucid'

And finally it's better to report this problem in the feedback thread opened specially by playdayz. You can take the last post for doing so. If you do so add the specs of your PC.


I know people have been successful running google earth.
I didn't try it, so I am afraid I can't much help further.
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#18 Post by Brown Mouse »

Yeah point taken Beem

However,it's not the computer specs which are at fault (although they are not the best).I run Windows 7,XP,all PCLinuxOS's without any such graphics
problems.
Google Earth ran before I tried installing nvidia drivers but it was slow and the very reason why I tried installing them.


Specs are:-

Pentium 4 dual core 3.0ghz processor
Asus P5QL/EPU Motherboard
!gb Kingston ram
Geforce EN 210 graphics card

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#19 Post by Béèm »

The specs of your PC are better then mine with a dual proc 1.6Ghz, also 1GB ram and a nvidia 7650.
So as said, didn't try google earth.
The nvidia driver installed ok in my case and I have no problems running lucid.

So I think your chances are much higher if you post in the thread I indicated.
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