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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5161 Location: Ontario

I have a geoforce2 board as well

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=436081#436081

I was able to get the NVIDIA-96.43.16_lupu500-k2.6.33.2.pet
to work on Lucid puppy.

The only suggestion I can give is to read the tips page very carefully
http://www.lhpup.org/tips-lhp.htm
then try to install a proprietory driver that Tazoc has
prepared. But it probably won't work.

http://lhpup.org/sfs/%3C%3C-PET/503/System/

If I knew more about compiling I would make a NVIDIA-96.43.16
driver. That's a project for the future Laughing

EDIT: I see that Tazoc has a nvidia 96 driver compiled
http://lhpup.org/pet/5/NVIDIA-96.43.16-k2.6.33.2-xserver-1.7.7.pet

But it says LHP version 502. No mention of 503???
I'll test it and see if it works in 503.

You could try it as well.

PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 130 Location: The Little Red Dot

After a few tries,the xorg NVdia96 driver works for LHP5.0.3!
don570, you make me so happy,can't thank you enough. Of course,I salute Tarzoc for his driver.
I'm raring to go,but must calm myself down and ask you:Will it work for my other Puppies,eg Wary 511 or 522, Puppy 431(Brunopup actually), and possibly for older puppies/kernels such as Classic Pup 214X-TOP9 as well as Legacy OS 2 based on kernel 2.6.18.1? Hope I'm not asking for too much.
To be exact,I use this one http://lhpup.org/pet/5/NVIDIA-96.43.16-k2.6.33.2-xserver-1.7.7.pet, not the the one for lupu. Aren't they the same?

As an aside,my other problem remains,unrelated to this issue as it was there before when using xvesa,i.e my LHP5.0.3 randomly freezes; I've just created a new pupsave and it's still happening. Memtest ran with no error,shouldn't be overheating problem as Wary 511 runs fine for hours. Sorry,this could be an issue for another thread.Just trying my luck here.Ignore me if I'm being impolite. Still in cloud nine after getting xorg NVidia driver to work for my notebook.Now,got to run FlSynclient to try and configure my touchpad tapping to work.
With people like you all in the Puppy Linux community, the computer world is so much more fun and meaningful, as well as benefiting the world at large.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2460 Location: Texas, USA

PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 130 Location: The Little Red Dot

Thanks Jim1911 for your prompt reply or I'd have plunged in with disastrous consequences,perhaps.
Much as I appreciate it,I'm afraid I'm not up to the task, being still quite a noob. Btw,my notebook uses the NV11 Geforce 2 Go chipset for all those puppies I multi-boot. Sigh.
One more thing,does it matter that I'm using an external LCD panel in place of my faulty notebook screen? Any synchronization problem?

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2460 Location: Texas, USA

PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 130 Location: The Little Red Dot

Thanks Jim. Only managed to find one Nvidia-96.43.13-k2.6.30.5-1.pet that works for my Puppy 431 and very happy with that.

As for Wary 522 and Quickset Wary511, I decided to try my hand at installing the nvidia driver using your method but kept running into "Verifying archive integrity...Error in check sums..." despite having double-checked the checksums to be matching after downloading the devx and source files. Actually,I use an md5sum utility in windows to compare the checksums in Windows as I'm more confident with it than using the Puppy gtkhash calculator to do a visual check.

For Wary 522, I used these files : devx_wary_5.2.2.sfs, kernel_src_2.6.32-uni-45-patched-sfs, and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.20-pkg1.run.
First, I copied all 3 files to /mnt/home.
Then, run bootconfig manager to load the devx and source files at bootup and reboot.
Next,exited to prompt, cd /mnt/home.
Followed by, sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.20-pkg1.run
And got the error message.

The steps were the same for Quickset Wary511 but I wasn't 100% sure I got the correct files, namely, wary_devx_511.sfs, kernel_src-2.6.32.28-patched.sfs. I based them on what I got from uname -a except that quickset wary uses the small iso without language packs.

Hoped to receive your further guidance or welcome response from anyone for a noob who was gung-ho to plunge into the deep end albeit a failed maiden attempt.
Edit: Just did another checksum to make sure ,this time using puppy's gtkhash and found no discrepancy.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5161 Location: Ontario

I tried Tazoc's http://lhpup.org/pet/5/NVIDIA-96.43.16-k2.6.33.2-xserver-1.7.7.pet

on Lighthouse 503g and it didn't work for me. There must be a reason
why it's listed for Lighthouse 502 only Crying or Very sad

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Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2460 Location: Texas, USA

PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 130 Location: The Little Red Dot

Solved: Sorry,it turned out to be a faulty Nvidia96.43.20 download,there being no md5sum to check. Sincerely appreciate don and Jim for their kind responses. Success tastes sweet. Very Happy

PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 130 Location: The Little Red Dot

I noticed a few of the menu icons disappeared with labels remaining, eg under Utilities. Can't recall exactly what I did before that happened but it occurred to both PCs using radeon graphics cards, one Radeon9550 on the built-in radeon driver while the other ,Radeon HD5450, used the ati-catalyst-10.6 driver from Lighthouse Update. 'Refresh menus' or 'fixmenus' in console failed to fix it.

For the HD5450, I tried updating the driver to ati-catalyst-11-12 manually using the ati-driver-installer with the requisite LHP devx and kernel source files successfully but the disappearing-icons problem remains.

Also tried switching from JWM to ICEWM, stil the same, but switching to XFCE restores it to original state, so I don't think it's caused by the radeon driver

How do I restore the icons in JWM and ICEWM? Any guidance appreciated. TIA.

Added: Another strange,probably related,problem, clicking on the desktop causes the wbar to disappear.

HiDeHo · Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 302

Hi Is this lhp 503-g the final version being made of the 32bit LHP

I do hope you are still working hard on it. but also i know when its done its done. lol

michel804 · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 29 Location: Richmond, VA

First thanks to all for a very good distro that does everything expected and more. I recently tried to install a debian package so i can have a java compiler ( i am taking a class). the package manager gave a successful message BUT there was no compiler. So i want to know what i need to do to install the JDK in LHP. I have LHP 5.03 mariner, frugal install. thanks
Michel

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

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Cherag · Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 1 Location: Mumbai - India

Hi,

I am beginer in GNU/Linux and need help in detecting a network interface on a Lenovo 4518 model pc. I have booted directly from USB ( no installation) and tried lading many modules from the list but cannot get the network inteface detected.

The network adapter is an Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection

Thanks in Advance,