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shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

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foxpup · Posted: Mon 26 Sep 2016, 10:05 Post subject: legacy71xx and tahr

Hi, anyone who succeeded in compiling legacy71xx driver (old old old!) on tahr6.0.2 (kernel 3.14.20). It certainly needs patches.
AND have it running (possibly will not run on newer Xorg?)?

peebee · Posted: Tue 27 Sep 2016, 02:27 Post subject: 304.132

Legacy driver .run file 304.132

has been released.....

later - compiles under kernel 4.7.5 but does not load - looks like mtrr patch for kernels > 4.3 has not been applied!!

nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)

even later - I've managed to apply the mtrr patches to the 304.132.run but getnvidia then throws a wobbly and won't build the sfs - however installing the .run directly does create and install a working driver....

peebee · Posted: Wed 28 Sep 2016, 06:19 Post subject:

and even later

lessons learnt: there must not be a space in the path to the .run file otherwise getnvidia fails....

The following items in getnvidia-1.0.pet are now out of date:
/usr/bin/nvidia-installer (vintage 2013 - copied new version from 304.132 .run extract)
/usr/share/getnvidia/nvidia-glx.files (directory X11R7 no longer exists - change to /usr/lib/xorg/)

I've uploaded the patched .run to:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.132-patched-mtrr.run/download

The patch applied is:

peebee · Posted: Thu 15 Dec 2016, 13:12 Post subject:

Drivers 304.134 (Xorg-1.19 compatible) have been released by nvidia

Also 340.101

mtrr patch is still needed to make a loadable driver for Puppy.....

Patched .run file (32-bit):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.134-patched-mtrr.run/download

peebee · Posted: Mon 16 Jan 2017, 08:22 Post subject:

A further patch is needed to build the 304.134 driver in kernel 4.9

A patched 32-bit .run file with all patches needed for k4.9 is available from:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.134-patched-k4.9.run

The k4.9 patch is:

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2610 Location: South Australia

peebee · Posted: Wed 18 Jan 2017, 19:22 Post subject:

prehistoric · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 1661

@peebee,

I have a patched NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.134.run file that I've tested successfully on Fatdog 64 710 (kernel 4.4.35) with a machine that has the embedded Geforce 6150 video, requiring the legacy driver.

How do I get this to you?

I've attached the command line output from extracting the files, applying the patches, and running a modified makeself to recreate the self-extracting file. This was then run on a machine with plenty of RAM and the devx and kernel source sfs. You need to blacklist nouveau before you run this to avoid confusing the script, and again when you reboot. The problem is that the modified configuration files don't come into effect until after the initrd is used, which is likely to load nouveau. With Fatdog 710 the syntax at the end of the kernel line is simply "blacklist=nouveau". You also need to modify any bootloader like Grub to keep blacklisting the module, unless you want to rebuild the initrd.

bigpup · Posted: Wed 18 Jan 2017, 19:57 Post subject:

A lot of drivers here:
https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Skami_Driver_Repo

prehistoric · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 1661

Okay, the patched nvidia file mentioned above (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.134-patched.run) has been uploaded to www.smokey01,com/prehistoric along with an md5sum. Use the site search to find it, if this isn't obvious.

I've removed two files I had uploaded before, as they are so out-of-date as to be dangerous.

The .run script has been tested on two machines running Fatdog 710 which had sufficient memory for development. This requires the devx.sfs and the kernel source for 4.4.35 to be loaded. It should work on later kernels up to 4.9, but has not been tested.

To build this module in Fatdog you need to boot with "blacklist=nouveau" appended, and exit the GUI to run from the console, or the script gets upset. After it has built the nvidia kernel module and modified configuration files you can type xwin to go to a GUI desktop, but in fatdog 710 you will still need to blacklist nouveau on every boot to avoid having a conflict with the initrd loading nouveau. (Modify the kernel line in the bootloader menu.)

This is only for legacy Nvidia products requiring the 304.xxx driver. The test machines both had Geforce 6150/6150LE embedded graphics. At one time this was a popular type of video in consumer products like the HP media center PCs. By coincidence, we have just had an unrelated request for help with one. I have a machine I built myself, and was recently given an HP media center considered obsolete. Both run Puppy or Fatdog 710 nicely.

Those who are running Puppies built from binaries available for Ubuntu, for example, do not have to use this as they can probably find the corresponding binaries on-line. This has the advantage that it works with files directly downloaded from Nvidia, only patched to allow newer kernels.

bigpup · Posted: Mon 06 Feb 2017, 18:05 Post subject:

After using Getnvidia 1.0.
Making and installing a Nvidia driver.
Now using the Nvidia driver.

I noticed this file in /root/startup

peebee · Posted: Sat 18 Feb 2017, 07:57 Post subject: 304.135 driver

304.135 driver has been released by nvidia....

No longer needs the mtrr patch - hooray Razz

For kernels >=4.9 the k4.9 patch is still needed.

Patched 32-bit .run available from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.135-patched-k4.9.run/download

peebee · Posted: Sat 25 Mar 2017, 13:21 Post subject:

32-bit 304.135 driver patched for kernel-4.10....

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.135-patched-k4.10.run

Patches from here

peebee · Posted: Sat 20 May 2017, 11:01 Post subject:

32-bit 304.135 driver patched for kernel-4.11....

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.135-patched-k4.11.run