How to install nvidia 8600 Driver ?

[sathyan]

Hi all,
Just bought a new graphics card with nvidia 8600...
i tryed installing drivers for tht.. but nothing is working in puppy.....
i'm trying in puppy 3 with kernal 2.6.21.7..

i tryed nvidia-964301-K2.6.21.7.pet and when i tryed restarting X.. it failed...

i tryed other methods from this forum...
where many showed error saying tht binutils can't find....
when i tryed to solve that i got cc command not found......
now how to install gcc in puppy

is there any .pet for nvidia 8600 ??

help plz........
thanks

[kirk]

If you want to try the Nvidia installer, you'll need the devx and kernel source sfs files from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... modules-3/

Place the two sfs files in the same place as your pup_save file and reboot. This will give Puppy a compile environment and kernel source.

Then try the Nvidia installer. I haven't used the Nvidia installer for a while, but last time I tried it worked. Also, make a new pup_save file before starting and you'll need to be running Xorg (not Xvesa).

[gray]

sathyan,

For the 8600 you probably need to use the NVIDIA-100.14.19-k2.6.21.7.pet

http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop

[sathyan]

gray,
thanks for the .pet and the location... it worked great...
one more question.. i connected a LCD TV with a HDMI port.. to get the max resolution i need to set the refresh rate to 25Hz.. how to set that ??

thank u once again...