This is a sad first...After 10 different hardware configurations where Puppy was flawless, I cannot start X with an nVidia 8400GS based video card with Puppy+ (4). Neither Xorg nor Vesa work. I tried also X, with low screen resolutions, like 1024x768x16 & 800x600x16 but w/o success. I get only a blank screen and system appears to hang (neither Ctrl+Backspace or Ctrl+Alt+F1 work). Screen remains blank but does not switch to suspend...
To indicate rest of hardware, mobo is ASUS A8N5X (nF4 based, socket 939, is compatible with Puppy), 2x1GB DDR400 RAM, AMD64X2 4400+ dual core CPU
(mobo worked fine with single core AMD64 3700+ and nVidia 6200 video card)
I am really stuck (literally...am writing this from a SuSE LiveCD...SysInfo in SuSE shows in "Video" not the typical nv driver but MESA rendering, don't know if this is relevant...)
Could anyone please suggest a possible approach?
nVidia 8400GS - How can I make it work???
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nVidia 8400GS - How can I make it work???
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try newyearspup 02rc7 MIDI or MAXI:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37960
It has inbuilt nvidia drivers that you can select at startup.
Mark
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37960
It has inbuilt nvidia drivers that you can select at startup.
Mark
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Mark, many thanks for the tip; Will give it a shot, otherwise only option is to
return the 8400GS to the store as incompatible (luckily they tend to be
very customer-friendly in that respect) and opt for a 7200GS/256MB.
It may be slightly inferior performance-wise (I'm not into gaming anyway),
but at least it's compatible with the standard drivers.
Cheers
return the 8400GS to the store as incompatible (luckily they tend to be
very customer-friendly in that respect) and opt for a 7200GS/256MB.
It may be slightly inferior performance-wise (I'm not into gaming anyway),
but at least it's compatible with the standard drivers.
Cheers
Help M$ become a Linux distro maintainer...
Force-feed them with Open-Source faster than they can produce patents
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NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
my card is NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G. loaded os puppy linux 4.1, kernel 2.6.25.16.
which pet is applicable?
which pet is applicable?
nvidia drivers for Kernel 2.6.25.16:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34001
downloads now might require a password:
user: puppy
password: linux
Mark
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34001
downloads now might require a password:
user: puppy
password: linux
Mark
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this thread has many extra modules, the second message deals with atheros:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159
Mark
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159
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