(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Afecelis,

The puppylinux.ca site is seriously overloaded I think (puppy is a victim of its own success). I will try to set up an alternative download site.

As to your question. Yes, running the pet then restarting X will give hardware accelration and set up OpenGL (so no need to install DRI packages). You can test the setup by running glxgears or glxinfo commands in a terminal.

Unfortunately if you run on a USB stick you will get a plain old default xorg file when you try on a new machine. You have to run nvidia-xconfig to set it up for that machine. I then go into /etc/X11 and copy the new working xorg.conf to the file that has been set up for that graphics card-monitor combo so that next time I plug into that machine it will use that file and have the 3D accel set up at boot up, even if I have used the USB on a different machine. That way a collection of files such as xorg.conf.NVIDIABenQFP71G are set up for the machines that you frequent.

Excellent! thanks a lot!

I was able to get the drivers from another mirror, and now I got 3d acceleration. I'm getting 13000-17000 when running glxgears:


And with the developer's sfs pack I was able to compile yafray for blender! Now both blender and yafray are running great!


I'll see how things go when I plug my usb drive into another pc with no nvidia card.

regards, and thanks,

Alvaro

ps. I'd appreciate the mirror in case any newer version comes out.

yay! the puppy running a scene exported from blender into equinox and wings3d!

Concurrent download limit exceeded.

afecelis wrote:Excellent! thanks a lot!

I was able to get the drivers from another mirror, and now I got 3d acceleration.

Nice to know but can you share the mirror please.

The mirror I had found was this one:
http://puppylinux.igsobe.com/puppylinux/tpp/NOP/
But it now seems to be dead as well.

However, I uploaded a copy to my ftp, so grab it here:
http://files.wildspad.com/afecelis/linu ... .25.16.pet


Regards,
Alvaro

ps. This is the version for modern cards (Geforce 6-9-200)
And here's another screenie, OPenarena (quake 3)

Many thanks Alvaro,

Now i've been able to get my onboard nvidia chipset supporting full resolution and 3D. It makes my puppy a complete, lightweight and powerful distro.


Thanks again

Great!
I'm very glad it helped. I hope others can benefit and download the driver from the link I posted.

regards,

Alvaro

Thanks Alvaro!

I spent about 3 hours last night just trying to download a file!

Hope these problems get fixed soon.

hehehe, it's really not a problem; Puppy is becoming too popular and it's flooding all servers!

regards,

Alvaro

Like others, I cannot download

NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet

I get the "Concurrent download limit exceeded" error.

I am trying to build a box that needs NVidia twin view
support urgently for a client, any suggestions where I
can get it?

thanks very much
davidv

davidv wrote:Like others, I cannot download

NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet

Ummm ... did you read the post about 3 posts higher? One generous person uploaded to a new site for download. Worked for me luckily.

And more good news ... its a newer driver than the one you listed above!

Although I think 177.82 is still outdated now.

sml wrote:

davidv wrote:Like others, I cannot download

NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet

Ummm ... did you read the post about 3 posts higher? One generous person uploaded to a new site for download. Worked for me luckily.

And more good news ... its a newer driver than the one you listed above!

Although I think 177.82 is still outdated now.

Thanks sml, as per my response in the other thread, the NVidia drivers come in (at least) 3 different series, each supporting different aged cards. That's why gray has packaged them all up here.

Thanks anyway. I have pm'd gray to see if he can put the 173.14.x pet somewhere else ..

I have put the Nvidia drivers on an alternate download server.

Try http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/

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gray wrote:I have put the Nvidia drivers on an alternate download server.

Try http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/

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You legend !
thank you very much gray!
downloading now ..

Haha .. I was going to say exactly the same thing!

You're a legend Gray!

more 3d accelerated stuff; the Puppy compiling and running Irrlicht! Gotta love it!

Hi, great Forum!!

I am newbie with Linux, and I am trying to install the driver for GeForce 7100 Graphics card. The chipset came onboard on XFXforce motherboard 630i.

I am running Intrepid Ibix from hard disk since last weekend. I downloaded the 177 driver Alvaro mentions, and apparently installation is OK. I exit to prompt and run nvidia-xconfig, and later I made a cat of the config file and I saw there are some lines referring to nvidia. Later I ran xwin and came back to my desktop.

I clicked on Menu->System->Nvidia X server settings

and a graphic interface pops up (NVIDIA X Server Settings), and simultaneously another screen pops up saying:

ou do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

I repeated the procedure twice and obtained the same results. I rebooted completely in between. Is this the normal behaviour, or this driver is now working fine for my chipset?

Another question I ask you to allow me to post is : how do I connect the HDMI output ?, I mean, shouldn't there be some way to have both screens simultaneously online?, I tried on Ubuntu, and there is a package which allows to control both screens in such a way. But I'd rather use Puppy which I find more userfriendly (although I am not very experienced).

Another one... (the last) is there a way to install the Ubuntu packages in Puppy?, perhaps that could work... I don't have any idea.

Thanks and sorry for asking so many questions.

Vic

Will these pets work with the 2.6.27 kernel that MU put together?

don't think so.
But in Muppy008.4c4 that should be available tomorrow, I could compile the drivers, so they will be included.
I used the original nvidia installer to compile them.
But I don't think the one I compiled for Muppy will work in Puppy (different compiler).
So for Puppy, you had to compile them on your own.
I no longer have access to a computer with modern nvidia card, so I cannot compile it for you, as the installer refuses to compile, if it finds no matching nvidia card.
Mark