Hopefully this will be straightforward for all to follow.
Check on the Nvidia website and see if your graphics card has an update available for you here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Current build ( 12 April 2012 ):
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... 295.40.run
Download the driver and keep it outside of your 'home' folder.
eg
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
Next you need to download two SFS files for Lucid:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... _528-4.sfs
and
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... atched.sfs
Both of these will need to be loaded when you next boot up.
Reboot your OS and choose XVesa as your graphics driver then press
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
this will drop you out of XServer and you should see a empty screen.
Type:
cd path/to/your/Nvidia-download
eg
cd /mnt/home/downloads/
then type:
dir
this should give you a list of the files in that directory eg
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
now type in:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
this will now take you through a few dialog boxes onscreen to install your new driver.
Once that has finished it will make the necessary changes to the Xorg configuration files.
Then type:
xwin
to get back to your desktop.
Lastly 'unload' the 2 SFS files and 'save'.
The compilation will not give you a menu entry in Puppy, but you can find the desktop icon in:
/usr/share/applications
this will allow you to change any further settings for your display.
Goodluck!
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