Unable to use any Nvidia drivers in Wary Puppy 5
Posted: Fri 15 Jul 2011, 16:02
I had posted about this a few months ago, and I decided to revisit Puppy, as I was hoping that this issue had been sorted out by now.
I just downloaded and ran the latest Wary Puppy 5.
OK. I have a newer Nvidia Card. Specifically it is the GT430. I have come to the conclusion that this will simply never work in Puppy with any of the pre-compiled drivers. Every attempt I have made (37 different ways) has failed one way or another, and it has gotten to the point where I just want to use the proprietary Nvidia driver, which works perfectly on every distro I have thrown it at.
Except Puppy.
When I attempt to run it, I get errors that a package is missing and that it should be in glibc. I have glibc, and the package (yes, I am an idiot for not noting this) is l-something. In any event, having seen this before, I have updated everything it asks for, only to encounter another error every time.
It is always something is missing, or there is a version conflict.
I ran down that path a couple months ago to no avail, installing package after package, each one breaking the one before it due to versioning issues.
This should be EASY. It is just a video driver.
So then what does one need to actually installed in puppy to be able to successfully install from the nvidiaxxx.run file?
ANY version of puppy will be fine with me, I just need it installed on the system with full screen display.
Alternately, if anyone knows of a .pet file that actually works with this card, that would be fine too. In Wary, I tried to update xorg, and got the dreaded "oh dear" message - logging in to ibiblio directly, I could not find or determine which file I needed.
ANY help will be greatly appreciated.
I really miss Puppy, and do not want to go back to my old card.
I just downloaded and ran the latest Wary Puppy 5.
OK. I have a newer Nvidia Card. Specifically it is the GT430. I have come to the conclusion that this will simply never work in Puppy with any of the pre-compiled drivers. Every attempt I have made (37 different ways) has failed one way or another, and it has gotten to the point where I just want to use the proprietary Nvidia driver, which works perfectly on every distro I have thrown it at.
Except Puppy.
When I attempt to run it, I get errors that a package is missing and that it should be in glibc. I have glibc, and the package (yes, I am an idiot for not noting this) is l-something. In any event, having seen this before, I have updated everything it asks for, only to encounter another error every time.
It is always something is missing, or there is a version conflict.
I ran down that path a couple months ago to no avail, installing package after package, each one breaking the one before it due to versioning issues.
This should be EASY. It is just a video driver.
So then what does one need to actually installed in puppy to be able to successfully install from the nvidiaxxx.run file?
ANY version of puppy will be fine with me, I just need it installed on the system with full screen display.
Alternately, if anyone knows of a .pet file that actually works with this card, that would be fine too. In Wary, I tried to update xorg, and got the dreaded "oh dear" message - logging in to ibiblio directly, I could not find or determine which file I needed.
ANY help will be greatly appreciated.
I really miss Puppy, and do not want to go back to my old card.