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peebee · Posted: Fri 27 May 2016, 13:02 Post subject: 304.131 for k4.6

Here is the patch needed to get nvidia-304.131 to compile on kernel 4.6

Remove false .gz

This is in addition to the kernel 4.3 patch above.

You can download the patched .run if anybody wants it.

Cheers
peebee

riedzig · Joined: 01 Oct 2015 Posts: 40

Hi peebee,
I can't find the nvidia 304xx driver for
http://lx-pup.weebly.com/slacko60.html
Please let me know if this is available.

btw. unlike any other distros, here the leds Num, Caps and Scroll lock on my keyboard don't light, although the keys work properly. Can this be changed?

peebee · Posted: Fri 03 Jun 2016, 18:58 Post subject: Re: Nvidia driver for Slacko6.0

mikegarcia · Joined: 30 Jun 2016 Posts: 2

Hello. Iam new in the linux world, and i need help while installing nvidia drivers.

Kernel - 3.14.20 - PAE
Distribution - tharpup 6.0
Nvidia - Geforce4 440 go 64MB

If possible, i would like to have an already assembled file.

Thanks for the help

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3702 Location: Tamworth UK

I think I have posted about those drivers in the past on Puppy forums.
You can search as well as I can for the posts using my username and "NVIDIA"

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3725

chilidog · Joined: 10 Jun 2016 Posts: 10 Location: Belgium, Gent

I have an old computer (2004 or older) with Geforce256.
I run Tahr6.0.2 happily, but with vesa.

With Wary I can install the proper Invidia driver, legacy-71xx, but with Tahr I cannot because of the newer kernel.

In the package for legacy-71xx in debian wheezy there are patches for this. I haven't tried them: it would be a 'tour de force' for me.
There is also a warning there that "this driver only works with xserver 1.4" and Tahr has xorg 1.15!

Is it worth trying the patches from debian? Could it still work?
If so, did anyone by chance try this before?

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA

Making graphics drivers does not like me.

Anyone make any Nvidia drivers for Xenialpup 7.0.1?

I need the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39 driver.

I downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39.run package from Nvidia web site.
I have loaded the devx and kernel sfs, but I keep getting errors when making the driver.

version2013 · Joined: 08 Sep 2013 Posts: 504 Location: Florida, USA

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA

/usr/src/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target '/tmp/selfgz267
3/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.o' failed
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz2673/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.
o] Error 1
/usr/src/linux/Makefile:1391: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/selfgz2673/NVI
DIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1/usr/src/nv' failed
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz2673/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1/usr/sr
c/nv] Error 2
Makefile:146: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
Makefile:239: recipe for target 'module' failed
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
makefile:54: recipe for target 'module' failed
make: *** [module] Error 2
-> Error.

version2013 · Joined: 08 Sep 2013 Posts: 504 Location: Florida, USA

I get a similar set of errors when I tried compiling.

Using:
getnvidia-1.0.pet

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/test/xenialpup/devx_xenial_7.0.1.sfs
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/test/xenialpup/kernel_sources-4.5.2-xenial_PAE.sfs
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/test/xenialpup/xenial-7.0.1.iso

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/71302/en-us

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http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/701493/173xx-driver-doesn-t-work-on-recent-kernels-on-several-distros/
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/955598/linux/repost-what-linux-version-is-required-to-install-173-14-drivers-/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server#Releases

Menu > System > Pup-SysInfo system information > Base Report
• X.Org version: 1.18.3

Summary:
Xenial 7.0.1 uses X.Org server version: 1.18.3
Latest X.Org server version that will work with Nvidia 173.14.39, is 1.15

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA

version2013,

Thanks for looking into this!

This Nvidia driver is getting very old and it was the last one to support my hardware. No newer Nvidia driver will work.
Xenialpup 7.0.1 still works using the Nouveau driver with my hardware.

My computer specs are at the bottom of the list of supported hardware for Xenialpup 7.0.1.

I was just hoping I could still get an actual Nvidia driver to still work and give full feature support to my graphics hardware.

Tahrpup still lets me use a Nvidia driver, so Puppy is never dead on this computer.

Argolance · Posted: Mon 19 Sep 2016, 11:59 Post subject:

Bonjour,
I have being trying to download pet or sfs files directly from http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt/ or using some links of Forum threads pointing to. Files (even big ones!) are very quickly downloaded Shocked

but absolutely unusable/not installable. I just get empty files Sad

What's wrong?

[SOLVED]:

See this post. Thanks shinobar.

Cordialement.

Lassar · Joined: 08 Jul 2014 Posts: 238

I really don't get the problem with nvidia drivers.

I am using tarhpup 6.05 64 bit.

I had used linux mint 18 addition drivers program, and it showed me 2 nvidia drivers for my pc.

I used the puppy package manager to find these drivers on ubuntu.

Tried them and found one, that works real good on my pc.

So what is the big deal about using nvidia drivers.

Argolance · Posted: Fri 23 Sep 2016, 09:35 Post subject:

Bonjour,