My video problem may have resolved while I was thrashing about, my uptime is now about 3 hours since my video crashed my system.
How do I know that is the problem? Mint 17 behaved the same way, and installing NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.131 fixed the problem:
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** configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0 !!!Does Not Work!
** configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 :P problems gone
Asus M2N-MX SE Ram: 2GB installed
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
graphics Integrated in the NVIDIA ® GeForceTM 6100 Graphics
Processing Unit (GPU) High definition video processing with maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440 x 32bpp pixels (@75Hz)
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sudo lshw -c video
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Puppy version Precise 5.7.1 32 bit
Puppy is installed as 1) USB flash drive 2)4gb CF flash, both behave the same.
Trying to install the driver that should work failed:
I found (and reproduced) the failure during nvidia driver install:
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# /mnt/sda5/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.131.run
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 304.131.................................................................................................................................................
/// the gui failed, no useful error message, returned to prompt.
///
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# cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Feb 2 15:42:00 2016
installer version: 304.131
PATH: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/root/my-applications/bin:/usr/games
nvidia-installer command line:
./nvidia-installer
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
ERROR: Unable to find the system utility `ldconfig`; please make sure you have the package 'glibc' installed. If you do have glibc installed, then please check that `ldconfig` is in your PATH.
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Tue Feb 2 15:42:48 PST 2016
It is the same error that I got when I tried to install the .pet
"error, package nvidia-glx-304.131-k3.14.56_6.0.5_PAE.pet failed to install"
My problem may have resolved when I ran xorgwizard and selected "simple nv driver" but I what to know what that is!
I have three questions:
1) How can I determine which Driver is Running on my system?
2) Is the app "NVIDIA X Server Settings" supposed to be on my system? It is on Mint, that's how I got the driver that worked, and it shows which driver is running. You can see it in this forum discussion http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 873#801873 but I cannot find it in my menu.
3) I can not find QuickPet - perhaps I can get a driver using it.
Thanks for any help or pointers, I have been reading posts in the forum, but I have not found answers. I really like Puppy, so many great tools in such a small package!
-Rob