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gray

Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 318 Location: Adelaide - South Australia
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 07:24 Post subject:
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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.
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afecelis

Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 14:08 Post subject:
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Excellent! thanks a lot!
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.
regards, and thanks,
Alvaro
ps. I'd appreciate the mirror in case any newer version comes out.
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afecelis

Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 20:55 Post subject:
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yay! the puppy running a scene exported from blender into equinox and wings3d!
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sml
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 06:25 Post subject:
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Concurrent download limit exceeded.
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sml
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 08:12 Post subject:
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afecelis wrote: | Excellent! thanks a lot!
I was able to get the drivers from another mirror, and now I got 3d acceleration. |
Nice to know but can you share the mirror please.
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afecelis

Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 09:08 Post subject:
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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
Regards,
Alvaro
ps. This is the version for modern cards (Geforce 6-9-200)
And here's another screenie, OPenarena (quake 3)
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scottie_dog
Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 12:38 Post subject:
NVIDIA drivers for k2.6.25.16 (puppy 4.1) Subject description: NVIDIA drivers for k2.6.25.16 (puppy 4.1) |
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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
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afecelis

Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 15:08 Post subject:
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Great!
I'm very glad it helped. I hope others can benefit and download the driver from the link I posted.
regards,
Alvaro
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sml
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 16:36 Post subject:
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Thanks Alvaro!
I spent about 3 hours last night just trying to download a file!
Hope these problems get fixed soon.
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afecelis

Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Posted: Tue 25 Nov 2008, 17:30 Post subject:
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hehehe, it's really not a problem; Puppy is becoming too popular and it's flooding all servers!
regards,
Alvaro
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davidv
Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 03:40 Post subject:
Anybody have NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet ? Subject description: Impossible to download |
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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
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sml
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 162
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Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 05:01 Post subject:
Re: Anybody have NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet ? Subject description: Impossible to download |
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davidv wrote: | Like others, I cannot download
NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet
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Ummm ... did you read the post about 3 posts higher? One generous person uploaded to a new site for download. Worked for me luckily.
And more good news ... its a newer driver than the one you listed above!
Although I think 177.82 is still outdated now.
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davidv
Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 05:32 Post subject:
Re: Anybody have NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet ? Subject description: Impossible to download |
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sml wrote: | davidv wrote: | Like others, I cannot download
NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet
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Ummm ... did you read the post about 3 posts higher? One generous person uploaded to a new site for download. Worked for me luckily.
And more good news ... its a newer driver than the one you listed above!
Although I think 177.82 is still outdated now. |
Thanks sml, as per my response in the other thread, the NVidia drivers come in (at least) 3 different series, each supporting different aged cards. That's why gray has packaged them all up here.
Thanks anyway. I have pm'd gray to see if he can put the 173.14.x pet somewhere else ..
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gray

Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 318 Location: Adelaide - South Australia
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Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 06:08 Post subject:
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I have put the Nvidia drivers on an alternate download server.
Try http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/
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davidv
Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 06:26 Post subject:
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You legend !
thank you very much gray!
downloading now ..
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