What's the magic line of code to boot nvidea pci cards?
Posted: Thu 21 Jun 2018, 19:15
Well this was embarassing.
Took Puppy Artful on a stick round to a friend's man cave studio.
Stuck it in a Packard Bell core duo or dual core era pc. Well it seemed to be doing the usual until at the end the desktop went black and then ended it up with a severely distorted looking screen, which we could just make out that it had a badly distorted windows logo on it.
Was like puppy had tried to morph windows like in The Fly film.
Locked up completely. Tried it three times tweaking bios settings but just the same lockup at the end.
I stuck the same stick in a laptop which has a built in nvidia and that booted up fine.
Do I need to add nouveaux line in syslinux config so it will boot?
BTW I would be happy with vesa driver or whatever.
This is what I have normally used.
default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50
F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg
label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash
Thanks for any info, will try and get the model of the pci card if I can.
It's probably quite oldish though, I saw a little spider living there.
EDIT: NVIDEA Quadro FX 540
we tried peering in with a torch, but the pc was set back behind synths, modules and various pedals and miles of spaghetti, that we just broke out the beers instead.. seven just boots dandy with it, 4gb ram.
Would be nice for it to just work though..dented pride and all that bunkum lol.
Took Puppy Artful on a stick round to a friend's man cave studio.
Stuck it in a Packard Bell core duo or dual core era pc. Well it seemed to be doing the usual until at the end the desktop went black and then ended it up with a severely distorted looking screen, which we could just make out that it had a badly distorted windows logo on it.
Was like puppy had tried to morph windows like in The Fly film.
Locked up completely. Tried it three times tweaking bios settings but just the same lockup at the end.
I stuck the same stick in a laptop which has a built in nvidia and that booted up fine.
Do I need to add nouveaux line in syslinux config so it will boot?
BTW I would be happy with vesa driver or whatever.
This is what I have normally used.
default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50
F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg
label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash
Thanks for any info, will try and get the model of the pci card if I can.
It's probably quite oldish though, I saw a little spider living there.
EDIT: NVIDEA Quadro FX 540
we tried peering in with a torch, but the pc was set back behind synths, modules and various pedals and miles of spaghetti, that we just broke out the beers instead.. seven just boots dandy with it, 4gb ram.
Would be nice for it to just work though..dented pride and all that bunkum lol.