Need driver for Nvidia Geforce MX440 graphic card (Solved)

[georg1]

I ask if anyone can try compile nvidia driver for me.\

got slacko 5.7.0
kernel 3.10.32 i686

and nvidia geforce mx 440 graphic card LINK

I try with getnvidia 1.0 pet and always get error "some file is missing"

If anyone got 10 minutes his time to try if he got same error like me on this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95342

thank you

[Semme]

You need the kernel sources and the devx. Do you have'm?

[georg1]

got both

[Semme]

Actually, you should work through your problem in the linked thread.

[Semme]

You could always give the manual method a whirl. What I would do is confirm your dwnld with it's "--check" option.

[georg1]

I got same result, no matter what I do, if use any driver for mx440 I allways wind up with error



and here is success when I try compile random driver from nvidia



So what Is my options ? Take another distro is allmost inpossible, because that PC is on remote location and that guy make me a lot of gray hair during installation, I like avoid that stress again LOL

[CatDude]

Hello georg1

I ask if anyone can try compile nvidia driver for me.\

got slacko 5.7.0
kernel 3.10.32 i686

and nvidia geforce mx 440 graphic card LINK

I try with getnvidia 1.0 pet and always get error "some file is missing"

If anyone got 10 minutes his time to try if he got same error like me on this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95342

thank you

I managed to compile this driver a couple of months back for Slacko-5.7 (non PAE),
and it was a right PITA as it requires patching.

Anyway mate, i have just built it again in Slacko-5.7.0
and put it together as a dotpet for you.

• nvidia-legacy96-driver-96.43.23-3.10.32-PAE.pet
  nvidia-legacy96-driver-96.43.23-3.10.32-PAE.pet.md5.txt

Before attempting to use this package, please make a backup of your savefile.
Use entirely at your own risk !

After installing the dotpet (allow it enough time), Exit to prompt
and run xorgwizard
Select nvidia from the list of options offered
Choose your screen res and then reboot.

When you boot back into Puppy,
it will probably stop at a window asking you to Test now (or something similar)
let it do so.

Hope it works for you.
CatDude
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[georg1]

yeahh Im really happy

Thank you very very much

now work like must

Can I ask you, how you succes I try really hard allmost two day's and allways error.

Thank you again

[CatDude]

Hi

..Can I ask you, how you succes I try really hard allmost two day's and allways error.

Step 1. Get rid of the nouveau driver.

• The first thing to do is make sure that the nouveau driver is nowhere to be seen. (ie: blacklisted)
  
  Use the xorgwizard choose nv or vesa, reboot if needed.
  Back in Puppy run lsmod to see if the nouveau driver appears anywhere,
  if it does run rmmod nouveau followed by lsmod and take another look.
  
  It is vital to establish a nouveau free zone.

Step 2. Building the driver.

• This proved to be a PITA to get working on kernel version 3.xx
  
  For both Slacko-5.7 and Slacko-5.7.0 i used the following:
  
  • http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/nvidia-legacy96-driver/
    http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/nvidia-legacy96-kernel/
  the latter package contained two patch files:
  • /patches/173.14.36-37.patch
    /patches/173.14.37-38.patch
  but it still failed to build,
  due to it thinking the kernel version was 2.4.xx and not 3.4.xx
  
  After endless google searches, i found this:
  • http://rpmfusion.blizoo.mk/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/16/SRPMS/nvidia-96xx-kmod-96.43.23-1.fc16.15.src.rpm
  which when unpacked i noticed a patch file: drop24support.patch
  that appeared to be correcting this problem.
  
  So, i manually made the changes shown in that patch to the necessary file in the failed build dir: /tmp/SBo/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1/usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild
  then created a new patch: /patches/trio.patch (the result of all three patches.)
  
  Next i edited the .SlackBuild script
  commenting out the two lines applying the original patches,
  and added a new line to apply just the new patch.
  
  It then compiled without a hitch,
  as did the driver itself after installing the kernel-module package created above.

Hope this helps.

CatDude
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[georg1]

Thank you for this tutorial, I Will thy doin my self too

[CatDude]

Hello georg1

Thank you for this tutorial, I Will thy doin my self too

It's not so much a 'tutorial' but more of an 'overview' of what i did.

You will most likely need to install (via the PPM) pkgtools
otherwise the .SlackBuild's will fail to produce packages.

Don't forget that you also need both the devx and kernel-sources loaded.

CatDude
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[Griot]

Edited for clarity. Thanx CatDude & Flash.

[Flash]

Please don't post the same question several places in the forum. It causes problems for everyone, especially the people who are trying to help you but also anyone with the same problem who is looking for a solution.

I made your other post into its own thread. Perhaps there it will draw more attention than when added to a general thread about drivers.

[bobc]

BRAVO, Catdude!!!

You are THE MAN.

I fought with that trying every permutation of kernels, etc trying to get it to install, but don't know enough to do what you did.

I bet that will fix Slacko 5.9.3 on my nvidia machines