Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

gray · Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 07:24 Post_subject: The unobtainable

Afecelis,

The puppylinux.ca site is seriously overloaded I think (puppy is a victim of its own success). I will try to set up an alternative download site.

As to your question. Yes, running the pet then restarting X will give hardware accelration and set up OpenGL (so no need to install DRI packages). You can test the setup by running glxgears or glxinfo commands in a terminal.

Unfortunately if you run on a USB stick you will get a plain old default xorg file when you try on a new machine. You have to run nvidia-xconfig to set it up for that machine. I then go into /etc/X11 and copy the new working xorg.conf to the file that has been set up for that graphics card-monitor combo so that next time I plug into that machine it will use that file and have the 3D accel set up at boot up, even if I have used the USB on a different machine. That way a collection of files such as xorg.conf.NVIDIABenQFP71G are set up for the machines that you frequent.

afecelis · Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 14:08 Post_subject:

Excellent! thanks a lot! Very Happy

I was able to get the drivers from another mirror, and now I got 3d acceleration. I'm getting 13000-17000 when running glxgears:

And with the developer's sfs pack I was able to compile yafray for blender! Now both blender and yafray are running great!

I'll see how things go when I plug my usb drive into another pc with no nvidia card. Wink

regards, and thanks,

Alvaro

ps. I'd appreciate the mirror in case any newer version comes out.

afecelis · Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 20:55 Post_subject:

yay! the puppy running a scene exported from blender into equinox and wings3d! Very Happy

sml · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162

Concurrent download limit exceeded.

sml · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162

afecelis · Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 09:08 Post_subject:

The mirror I had found was this one:
http://puppylinux.igsobe.com/puppylinux/tpp/NOP/
But it now seems to be dead as well.

However, I uploaded a copy to my ftp, so grab it here:
http://files.wildspad.com/afecelis/linux/puppy/drivers/NVIDIA-177.82-k2.6.25.16.pet
Wink

Regards,
Alvaro

ps. This is the version for modern cards (Geforce 6-9-200)
And here's another screenie, OPenarena (quake 3) Wink

scottie_dog · Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Many thanks Alvaro,

Now i've been able to get my onboard nvidia chipset supporting full resolution and 3D. It makes my puppy a complete, lightweight and powerful distro.

Thanks again Very Happy

afecelis · Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 15:08 Post_subject:

Great!

I'm very glad it helped. I hope others can benefit and download the driver from the link I posted.

regards,

Alvaro

sml · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162

Thanks Alvaro!

I spent about 3 hours last night just trying to download a file!

Hope these problems get fixed soon.

afecelis · Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 17:30 Post_subject:

hehehe, it's really not a problem; Puppy is becoming too popular and it's flooding all servers! Very Happy

regards,

Alvaro

davidv · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Sydney, Australia

Like others, I cannot download

NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet

I get the "Concurrent download limit exceeded" error.

I am trying to build a box that needs NVidia twin view
support urgently for a client, any suggestions where I
can get it?

thanks very much
davidv

sml · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162

davidv · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Sydney, Australia

gray · Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 06:08 Post_subject: Alternate download site

I have put the Nvidia drivers on an alternate download server.

Try http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/

. Question

davidv · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Sydney, Australia