Can I use nvidia drivers in puppy?

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vtwin · #1 Post by **vtwin** » Sun 03 Jul 2005, 16:13

is it possible to use the nvidia drivers in puppy?
i'm using puppy on a hard drive install and my screen is a little squished in the middle. i can get it to work if i use 1280x1024 resolution but thats a little much.

thanks, pete

Guest · #2 Post by **Guest** » Mon 04 Jul 2005, 06:24

You need to use XFree86 to use NV drivers...Unless kdrive has a NV driver but that would need compiling.

Search the forum for XFree86..........

#3 Post by **Flash** » Mon 04 Jul 2005, 15:28

Check here, but read the whole thread before proceeding.

vtwin · #4 Post by **vtwin** » Mon 04 Jul 2005, 17:01

i installed your version of puppy and it runs alot faster. good job!

i looked at the precompiled binaries but am not sure what to get to enable the nv driver.

thanks, pete

#5 Post by **Flash** » Mon 04 Jul 2005, 18:14

Would you mind describing what you did in more detail? Thanks.

vtwin · #6 Post by **vtwin** » Mon 04 Jul 2005, 19:22

i just installed Puppy 1.0.3 with Xfree86-4.4.0 iso to my hard drive.
i want to use either xfree's nv server or the driver from nvidia.
i am unsure which xfree86 precompiled binary to download to get it to work.

pete

BarryK · #7 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 00:29

vtwin,
You reported that the screen is "squished in the middle" -- I wonder if that is a monitor problem?

I would like to get feedback from anyone else with Nvidia video chip.
...any problem with the display in different resolutions?

I could maybe supply a fix in Puppy 1.0.4, as I'm working on incorporating framebuffer kernel driver modules and the Xfbdev Kdrive X server (this is not the full XFreee 4.4.0 X server!). There is a kernel module for nvidia, but I wasn't going to include it as didn't know of any problems with Nvidia and the current Xvesa X server used in Puppy.

If you reckon that the Nvidia special framebuffer driver should be included, help me out by running this command:

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# cat /proc/pci | grep "VGA"

...report back what it returns. As was mentioned in another thread today, to copy from rxvt is real easy, just drag the mouse cursor over the text and it is automatically placed in the clipboard.

#8 Post by **Flash** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 01:30

My other computer is a H-P with an nVidia Vanta card in it. Here's what I get:

# cat /proc/pci | grep "VGA"
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/VantaLT] (rev 21).
#

The puppy 1.0.3 video wizard offers up to 1024x768x24 straight out of the box. I've not changed a thing.

vtwin · #9 Post by **vtwin** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 04:13

# cat /proc/pci | grep "VGA"
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev 178).

i have a envision eft720 flat screen monitor. it works fine in xp with the nvidia drivers.
i have been messing with the XF86config monitor settings and it's better but i have a small inward curve on the left bottom side of the screen.

thanks for your help,

pete

Guest · #10 Post by **Guest** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 05:10

XFree86-4.4.0 glibc-2.3

The binaries I used where stright of the precompiled binaries from the XFree86 site......If you can wait a bit I can post the nv driver for you if you'd like.

vtwin · #11 Post by **vtwin** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 06:07

bladehunter sounds good. hopefully i can get it going.
i downloaded the module version i thought it would be and got this

# depmod
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27/net/airo.o.gz
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27/nv_drv.o

# modprobe nv_drv
/lib/modules/2.4.27/nv_drv.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for
/lib/modules/2.4.27/nv_drv.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27/nv_drv.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27/nv_drv.o: insmod nv_drv failed

thanks, pete

Guest · #12 Post by **Guest** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 09:04

Yeah I noticed the airo error before, but very few use that module I didn't really think it was a major problem....I'll wait and see..

What was you source for the nv_drv ?

I was meaning that XFree itself has a nv driver, I know I use it myslef on 2 other machines I have, come to think of it those problems didn't occur using the vesa module......Are you in a position to try another monitor, as it just may well be a H or V frequency issue.

vtwin · #13 Post by **vtwin** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 18:01

it just might be a monitor issue. i'll try messing with the sync again.

i got thexmod.tgz from
xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc23

thanks, pete

Guest · #14 Post by **Guest** » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 18:57

Hey cool Pete, let us all know how you go, the info might just help someone else later on down the track.

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