NVIDIA drivers for k2.6.25.16 (puppy 4.1)

[gray]

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]

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.

[afecelis]

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

[sml]

Concurrent download limit exceeded.

[sml]

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.

[afecelis]

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/linu ... .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)

[scottie_dog]

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

[afecelis]

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

regards,

Alvaro

[sml]

Thanks Alvaro!

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

Hope these problems get fixed soon.

[afecelis]

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

regards,

Alvaro

[davidv]

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]

Like others, I cannot download

NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet

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.

[davidv]

Like others, I cannot download

NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet

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 ..

[gray]

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

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

.

[davidv]

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

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

.

You legend !
thank you very much gray!
downloading now ..

[sml]

Haha .. I was going to say exactly the same thing!

You're a legend Gray!

[afecelis]

more 3d accelerated stuff; the Puppy compiling and running Irrlicht! Gotta love it!

[thegreeneyes]

Hi, great Forum!!

I am newbie with Linux, and I am trying to install the driver for GeForce 7100 Graphics card. The chipset came onboard on XFXforce motherboard 630i.

I am running Intrepid Ibix from hard disk since last weekend. I downloaded the 177 driver Alvaro mentions, and apparently installation is OK. I exit to prompt and run nvidia-xconfig, and later I made a cat of the config file and I saw there are some lines referring to nvidia. Later I ran xwin and came back to my desktop.

I clicked on Menu->System->Nvidia X server settings

and a graphic interface pops up (NVIDIA X Server Settings), and simultaneously another screen pops up saying:

ou do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

I repeated the procedure twice and obtained the same results. I rebooted completely in between. Is this the normal behaviour, or this driver is now working fine for my chipset?

Another question I ask you to allow me to post is : how do I connect the HDMI output ?, I mean, shouldn't there be some way to have both screens simultaneously online?, I tried on Ubuntu, and there is a package which allows to control both screens in such a way. But I'd rather use Puppy which I find more userfriendly (although I am not very experienced).

Another one... (the last) is there a way to install the Ubuntu packages in Puppy?, perhaps that could work... I don't have any idea.

Thanks and sorry for asking so many questions.

Vic

[Fishy]

Will these pets work with the 2.6.27 kernel that MU put together?

[MU]

don't think so.
But in Muppy008.4c4 that should be available tomorrow, I could compile the drivers, so they will be included.
I used the original nvidia installer to compile them.
But I don't think the one I compiled for Muppy will work in Puppy (different compiler).
So for Puppy, you had to compile them on your own.
I no longer have access to a computer with modern nvidia card, so I cannot compile it for you, as the installer refuses to compile, if it finds no matching nvidia card.
Mark