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charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 800 Location: South of Belgium

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charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 800 Location: South of Belgium

Hi, GOOD NEWS !
solved ==> see here Very Happy

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=647983#647983

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 800 Location: South of Belgium

Hi,
failed to build of 96.43.20 nvidia driiver on 5X.3.4.2.9
see more here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=648052#648052
thanks for any help!

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

UPDATE: getnvidia-0.7.pet to install NVIDIA driver / build SFS/PET.
# 29aug2012: again fix GL (rc.nvidia)
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

UPDATED
nvidia-glx-304.51.sfs (UPDATE: 2012-09-29)
getnvidia-0.7.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

getnvidia-0.7-64.pet (UPDATE: 2012-09-29)
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup64/

See the detail on the top post.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

UPDATE:
getnvidia-0.8.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/
getnvidia-0.8-64.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup64/

# 20oct2012: try to remove nouveau module, nvidia version

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

UPDATE:
getnvidia-0.8.1.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

#10oct2012: vdpau

green_dome · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 189

Thank you for getnvidia.
Very useful and easy now to get latest nvidia driver.

Atle · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 211 Location: Oslo, Norway

Hello folks...

I got my self a "new" laptop with finally some nice specs...

Its a ASUS U36S

I really like to run Lupu and/or Lupu plus

This has the 2.6.33.2 kernel... All works beutifully, apart that I can not get the Nvidia driver to get my flying... The Nvidia card inside is the GL 520M that also has this "optimus" technology

I think I need to drop to my knees here and ask for some advice on how to get this driver to work with the 1366x768 as I have tried the nvidia-glx-304.51.sfs , but there is no 1366x768 resolution to chose as i drop to xorgwizard and once done chosing the driver the laptop screen goes black and the driver is not picked up...

EDIT... The driver is now installed, but not chosen. Still i come to a black screen and no 1366 option... *END OF EDIT*

Anyone has a similar Nvidia card that can guide me?

I can live with just using 70% of the ram installed with Lupu, but I really want to have a snappy screen..

Another Edit...

I now got the proper resolution... But once i boot the machine i get this message from Nvidia that i should run xorgwizard... when i do that the screen goes black no matter what resolution i choose...

There is no choice for 1366 resolution there...

hope for some advice... But i am very happy just to get the right resolution

Here is my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.51 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-06.nvidia.com) Tue Sep 18 18:48:23 PDT 2012

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

tallboy · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 343 Location: Oslo, Norway

Someone must correct me if I am wrong, but I believe a new 'xorg.conf' will automatically be built if you don't have one. I know that is the case with the big Mesa driver package, it will start the process by just restarting X. You can rename your existing xorg.conf, then restart X from the menu. Eventually, you can go to console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. In the console, don't start 'xorgwizard', but try first to run 'xwin'. The process may then build a new 'xorg.conf', and start X. If not, run 'xorgwizard', then 'xwin'.

tallboy

green_dome · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 189

Is it possible for 'getnvidia' package to be altered to allow for choosing which nvidia driver to build?

example terminal codes:
getnvidia http://url/to/driver.run
getnvidia /path/to/driver.run

I am having difficulty understanding the code in the getnvidia script relating to downloading or what driver file to run.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 905 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Hi

I wanted to create the 304.88 version of the nvidia driver for Precise 5.6 k3.2.44 as I apparently need that version for my desktop.

I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.88.run

I installed getnvidia 0.9 onto a pristine frugal install of Precise 5.6 (no savefile) with the devx and kernel sources loaded by load-sfs-on-the-fly

I had 3 problems:

1. getnvidia insisted on there being an internet connection even though I wanted it to use a file that I had already downloaded

2. the new xorg-wizard had chosen nouveau and getnvidia did not seem to want to create the nvidia sfs whilst nouveau was in use

3. the .run file was not recognised as valid: