Simple steps to compiling Nvidia drivers for Lucid-004/005
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 09:55
Hopefully this will be straightforward for all to follow.
Check on the Nvidia website and see if your graphics card has an update available for you here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Current build ( 12 April 2012 ):
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... 295.40.run
Download the driver and keep it outside of your 'home' folder.
eg
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
Next you need to download two SFS files for Lucid:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... _528-4.sfs
and
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... atched.sfs
Both of these will need to be loaded when you next boot up.
Reboot your OS and choose XVesa as your graphics driver then press
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
this will drop you out of XServer and you should see a empty screen.
Type:
cd path/to/your/Nvidia-download
eg
cd /mnt/home/downloads/
then type:
dir
this should give you a list of the files in that directory eg
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
now type in:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
this will now take you through a few dialog boxes onscreen to install your new driver.
Once that has finished it will make the necessary changes to the Xorg configuration files.
Then type:
xwin
to get back to your desktop.
Lastly 'unload' the 2 SFS files and 'save'.
The compilation will not give you a menu entry in Puppy, but you can find the desktop icon in:
/usr/share/applications
this will allow you to change any further settings for your display.
Goodluck!
Check on the Nvidia website and see if your graphics card has an update available for you here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Current build ( 12 April 2012 ):
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... 295.40.run
Download the driver and keep it outside of your 'home' folder.
eg
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
Next you need to download two SFS files for Lucid:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... _528-4.sfs
and
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... atched.sfs
Both of these will need to be loaded when you next boot up.
Reboot your OS and choose XVesa as your graphics driver then press
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
this will drop you out of XServer and you should see a empty screen.
Type:
cd path/to/your/Nvidia-download
eg
cd /mnt/home/downloads/
then type:
dir
this should give you a list of the files in that directory eg
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
now type in:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.40.run
this will now take you through a few dialog boxes onscreen to install your new driver.
Once that has finished it will make the necessary changes to the Xorg configuration files.
Then type:
xwin
to get back to your desktop.
Lastly 'unload' the 2 SFS files and 'save'.
The compilation will not give you a menu entry in Puppy, but you can find the desktop icon in:
/usr/share/applications
this will allow you to change any further settings for your display.
Goodluck!