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nvidia 96.43.xx driver for GeForce2 MX200 for k3.4.2

#1061 Post by charlie6 »

Hi Pemasu,
pemasu wrote:Charlie6. ...It looks like that the 96.43.20 nvidia driver package is not compatible with 3.X kernels...
Unfortunately that older nvidia driver package is not compatible. .
thnks for your reply....
I then browsed the nvidia forum ans found this post written by 16 augustus 2012 ( i surely ought to browse there first ... :oops: ):
Nvidia Linux forum member wrote:Default Re: NVidia 96.xx.xx & 173.xx.xx Legacy drivers don’t work in Ubuntu 12.04
I emailed support about a week ago and they replied very quickly that they have no intentions to update the 96xx driver. We are just out of luck.
so no hope - i will use this pc with 5X15
see results here :D ==> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=2129
Cheers, Charlie

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#1062 Post by ssanubis »

Here's my dmesg output. If there is anything else I can do let me know, I have plenty of time on my hands at the moment, lol.
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#1063 Post by pemasu »

ssanubis. It seems I have screwed the folder structure of the firmwares when I meddled with changing their location. I seem to have lost my mind.
Okay...I need to create new build of dpup exprimo with 3.4.2 kernel.
But...here is quick fix. The firmwares are all there. They just need folder reconstruction.
Install this pet. It has only the pinstall.sh script inside which runs the needed commands to move the firmwares to the right location.
Thank you of the feedback. It was valuable information. I wonder how many has had problems with firmwares, but havent posted about the problems.
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#1064 Post by linuph »

@pemasu
I earlier reported that Frisbee wlan was working in the latest Exprimo. Because of some other unrelated problems I deleted the squeezesave file and started all over. To my surprise, Frisbee wlan did not work, again.

I use a USB WiFi dongle with Ralink rt5370sta chip/driver. Having similar experiences with other Puppies I downloaded and installed tempestuous' rt5370 pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 3&start=15.

Now it works and even better than before since it now finds other WiFi stations in my neighborhood too.

Just to let you know.
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#1065 Post by pemasu »

Linuph. Yes. That goes to the same firmware folder stucture misconfiguration. That pet has the right firmware and folder structure included. So your wireless finds the right driver (dpup one) and the right firmware (from the pet). Now it is clear to me. It is just...that when you copy firmware folder with different folder structure need from one place to the other place and then again back...the right folder structure just didnt came clearly to mind at the time. Now...I see my mistake clearly.
I will create new build quite soon. I will use latest woof though and update some apps also.

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#1066 Post by linuph »

I guess I've been a bit of help then...in spite of being some 15,000km and 8 hours apart... Wondrous, sort of.

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#1067 Post by ssanubis »

Well, I tried that pup with no luck. I decompressed the pup and checked the script to see if it had worked as intended. I found that it was trying to move a folder to a subfolder of itself which throws an error. I have changed the script to fix that issue. Now that I have the files in the correct location I have another related issue to iron out. The iwlwifi module is not in the list of modules in the network configuration wizard. As such I cannot select the module and test if this fix works correctly. How should I proceed? I have attached the patched pup for you.
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#1068 Post by pemasu »

Thanks for fixing the moving part. I thought that it worked straight. Anyway. Try module loading in console.
First for sure unload possibly loaded module. In console:
rmmod iwlwif
modprobe iwlwifi

And then check in console:
dmesg
....to see what happened. If it is not loaded correctly post again the output:
dmesg > dmesg.gz

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#1069 Post by ssanubis »

Reran rmmod and modprobe and according to dmesg iwlwifi cannot find the firmware file "iwlwifi-100-5.ucode" which is one of the files we moved in the previous step. Here on 3.1.10.3 there is an identical file structure for the iwlwifi and when I run dmesg i get no errors reported in association with iwlagn. Here is the dmesg from 3.4.2.9
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#1070 Post by pemasu »

Now I am starting to be clueless. If you have the same folder structure in /lib/modules/all-firmware/iwlwifi as in 3.1.10 dpup....everything should be allright. Have you remembered to try to reboot. it is possible that it is needed sometimes. Also you could copy the right firmware from 3.1.10.
Next thing is to place the firmwares straight to the /lib/firmware folder...or at least the asked iwlwifi-100-5.ucode.
Other than those procedures...I am starting to be clueless.

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#1071 Post by ssanubis »

Yes, I have rebooted after moving the files, then after rmmod + mod probe. I did also already try moving the files contained in the firmware folder up to the lib folder one branch up and even in the iwlwifi the branch above that. Each time I did so I rebooted then tried the rmmod + modprobe. All with the same result. I guess I could have posted those steps but to be honest I didn't expect they would be brought up, I just did it 'cause I am a bit OCD and figured it wouldn't hurt to try, lol. I would point out once again the major difference between 3.1.10.3 and 3.4.2 is that there is a module named iwlagn in 3.1.10.3 which is not present in 3.4.2. 3.1.10.3 does have the iwlwifi folder structure(/lib/modules/all-firmware/iwlwifi/lib/firmware/), though, and I assume iwlagn uses it the way we are trying to get 3.4.2 to using iwlwifi. Or is there some step I may be missing. I checked the list of loadable modules for network in 3.1.10.3 through the puppy network wizard like I normally would and it does not list iwlwifi, but instead lists iwlagn which i what I use on that build. When I switch to 3.4.2 I have neither iwlagn nor iwlwifi listed as available. Is 3.4.2 supposed to have a separate module loaded that I am missing? I wish I knew more about these modules and what resources there are to verify the firmware files are in the correct, expected location.


BIG EDIT!
I have found and fixed the problem! I was looking around 3.1.10.3 for differences in filestructure and found ALOT of files in /lib/firmware that are NOT in 3.4.2. I copied the contents of /lib/modules/all-firmware/iwlwifi/lib/firmware to /lib/firmware, reran rmmod and modprobe presto I have network connectivity for the first time in 3.4.2! I have made changes to the pup to account for this change so people will be able to use the pup to fix the issue until you get the chance to remake this build.
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gxine: cannot get it to run

#1072 Post by charlie6 »

Hi Pemasu,
on 5X3.4.2.9 (as also on 5X15): gxine: cannot get it to run ...
installed from dpup-exprimo-pets repo:
xine-lib-1.2.2.pet
gxine-0.5.907.pet
gxine_NLS-0.5.907.pet
installed from debian packages repo (missing <== ldd /usr/bin/gxine )
libmozjs2d_1.9.1.16-17_i386.deb
libnspr4-0d_4.8.6-1_i386.deb needed for libmozjs2d

and get this message when running from console:
# gxine
Illegal instruction
#
I thought gxine was running quite OOTB on exprimo (on an earlier version of 5X3.4.2.x...?)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=502
thanks for any help
Charlie

Pelo

Abiword

#1073 Post by Pelo »

ABIWORD plante / Abiword shuts down (under E17)
Bonjour. Je ne suis rien sans ABIWORD
ABIWORD does not work. Even from your repository. It's a strong damage !
Why ? How an I do ? Merci.

Pelo

iwlwifi iwlagn connect to wireless impossible

#1074 Post by Pelo »

Pas bien pas bien not good ! This distro is very attractive. I use it with eth0 cabled connect. It would be fine if wireless should be working. OK with Slacko, OK with Racy, why not with Dpup exprimo ?

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Re: Abiword

#1075 Post by charlie6 »

Pelo wrote:ABIWORD plante / Abiword shuts down (under E17)
Bonjour. Je ne suis rien sans ABIWORD
ABIWORD does not work. Even from your repository. It's a strong damage !
Why ? How an I do ? Merci.
ici avoir installé abiword-2.8.6-gnumeric-1.10.17-goffice-0.8.17-dpup.sfs
çà plante pas sous jwm - çà plante pas sous e17 ...so what's no good?
ps: if you need a more reliable textprocessor, you might try softmaker (dowload it here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... -2-x86.pet
+ the locale for french
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... -2-x86.pet

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#1076 Post by pemasu »

Sorry for not replying earlier. I was out of town. My old friend had public defence of a doctoral thesis yesterday. I had to travel far away. And the official party lasted long. I drived back during the late night. Now reading throuh posts.

I will check the apps which does not seem to work.

And I will create updated dpup...quite soon. First I need to finish this alpha build of dpup wheezy. I have stuff in the ram and I cant reboot before this is done. Sorry.

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#1077 Post by Iguleder »

Time for a small update - I PM'ed pemasu about this already.

I'm currently building an extremely minimal , 64-bit Wheezy dpup (which even lacks X) - I'm going to utilize all the build scripts I have to build as many packages as I can. The list includes pretty much everything needed to achieve a bootable Puppy - there's only one way to prove this :lol:

The result should be some extremely barebones, console-only Puppy. Sounds fun, doens't it? :wink:
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#1078 Post by pemasu »

Having someone like Iguleder interested in Wheezy build really makes my day. It feels as good as refreshing night sleep, good breakfast and sunny, windless day watching the still lake. Really great news.
Thank you Iguleder of doing your work with wheezy. It benefits us all.

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#1079 Post by Iguleder »

Started the compilation procedure already - the time difference between my previous reply and this one is amazing, got things to work pretty quickly :lol:

I'm going to start with the packages from my distro (heaps of cool console applications) and continue with Puppy's core packages (e.g mingetty and gtkdialog).

The first package (advancecomp) is already compiling 8)

EDIT: looks great! Got the following packages:advancecomp, aspell, aspell6-en, bash, busybox, dash, gpm, mktemp, optipng, syslinux and bitlbee. For some unknown reason, they're considerably smaller than those I built using a very similar distro built from Slackware 14.0 packages (which has the same GCC version).

EDIT 2: more packages: aria2, dropbear, irssi, lftp, links, re-alpine, unnethack, terminus-font, vim, libsigc++ and libtorrent. rtorrent will follow :wink:

EDIT 3: this is totally insane, so many packages! I'm uploading everything here. Don't forget - these are x86_64 dpup (oh yeah!) packages, so they won't work on any existing Puppy. I'll try to build a Puppy from these once I find the time.

EDIT 4: built 126 PET packages in about 6 hours. Totally automated. Two packages failed to build: snownews (because of some zlib incompatibility, still investigating) and movgrab (because Debian no longer supports SSLv2 in OpenSSL).
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#1080 Post by pemasu »

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.3.4.10 has been uploaded. It is almost entirely bug fix release. I have fixed the mistakenly wrongly created firmware folders. Couple of apps have been updated. No new applications.

I used latest woof version, so some puppy system fixes have been implemented with this update.

So...this update is for those wireless users who need appropriate firmware to be loaded also. And have been unlucky with previous dpup exprimo.

Download link: http://smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSqueeze5 ... imo5X3410/

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