How to install NVIDIA driver? (Fossapup64 9.5)

[Erfan]

Hello
I just installed puppy linux and I do not know so much about it.
for start, I need to install nvidia drive.
Is it possible to install all drivers automatically with the terminal?

[Flash]

Which Puppy and which NVIDIA? Most of the more recent Puppys should have drivers for all but the very latest hardware.

What have you tried so far?

[mikeslr]

And what computer?
Please read, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... p=816#p816.

There are over 6,000 puppies; and only God and possibly Google, NSA, The 9 Eyes, The SVR RF, The Chinese Ministry of State Security and you know the make-up of your computing system. As for the rest of us, to quote Bigpup: "The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem."

[bigpup]

If you are new to Puppy Linux.

A lot of info you need to know to really understand Puppy Linux.
viewforum.php?f=184

to Puppy Linux

[Erfan]

You are right.
My puppy version is (FossaPup64 9.5)
And you can see my hardware information in the picture.

[bigpup]

Stop making posts using big letters. That is shouting at us!

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If you are going to give general information and not the specific information requested here:
viewtopic.php?t=218

That Hardinfo page is not telling us anything useful about the Nvidia hardware.
Maybe under Display will. No help!!

Use the Pup-Sysinfo program for information.

Use menu-> System ->Pup-sysinfo ->Devices ->Display -> Video info

Nvidia info needed to find what driver you need is example: (type and model)
GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A (this is my hardware)

I will assume you have Fossapup64 9.5 installed as a frugal or Live install.
Have made a save and are now booted using the save.
If no this may not work.

Drivers are Linux kernel specific and have to be compiled for the specific kernel being used in the Puppy version.

If you are using Fossapup64 9.5 on the desktop is Quickpet icon
Click on it to open the Quickpet program.
Go to drivers tab
A couple of drivers are listed you can download and install.
Only install one of them.
To find out if one supports your hardware.
Go to the Nvidia web site and look up what driver it suggests for your hardware.
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
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If one of these already packaged for Fossapup64 9.5 drivers will not support your hardware.
This is the way to do it compiling a driver and installing.

How to install a Nvidia driver using getnvidia program and driver run package
viewtopic.php?t=123

[bigpup]

Unless you are doing very high demand and feature demanding graphics processes.

The default nouveau driver that is now being used is good enough.

It is a generic Nvidia hardware driver and has all the common features the Nvidia specific drivers do.
May not provide some special features a specific Nvidia hardware has.

[Erfan]

This is video info:
VIDEO REPORT: fossapup64, version 9.5
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz

X.Org X Server 1.20.8
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Chip description:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] [10de:0163] (rev a1)
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] [1682:215b]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: glx
Drivers requested to be loaded: nouveau

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dri2 exa fb glx libinput shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1360x768 pixels (359x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: NV44
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 20.0.8

Monitor : card0-VGA-1
Model : W1943
WxH (cm) : 41x23

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

And there were nvidia340 and nvidia450 in the quickpet fossapup64.
please tell me which one to install.

[bigpup]

Your Nvidia hardware is GeForce 6200 LE.

That is some old hardware.

Looking it up in the Nvidia driver web site I gave you.

It needs the 304 driver.
That is the one big problem driver to get working.

No driver newer supports Geforce 6200 LE.
So the 340 or 450 drivers offered in Quickpet will not work.

The 304 driver will not compile in a Puppy version as new as Fossapup64 9.5
The needed software is too new a version for it to work.
So compiling the driver is not possible with out doing a bunch of added changes to Fossapup64 9.5
Plus that driver needs a special patch to even try to work.

Same issues trying to compile drivers older than 304.
Linux software has moved on and these very old drivers run packages from Nvidia, never got updated to use newer versions of the software, needed to compile a driver.

So for Fossapup64 9.5 or any newer Puppy versions you will have to just use the nouveau driver.
But again, it will do about everything the Nvidia driver can do.
On that old a Nvidia hardware.
The nouveau driver should provide all features.

[Erfan]

Hello again
I installed nvidia drive and when I launch it this message appear:
You 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.

How must I write that in the terminal?

[bigpup]

Well what driver did you install and where did you get it?

It has to be a Nvidia driver that supports your hardware.

Drivers have to be compiled for the specific Linux kernel being used in the Puppy version, trying to use it in.

So you cannot use just any driver compiled for Puppy.
It has to be compiled for the specific Linux kernel being used.

You may be getting this error, because the driver is not correct to use with the Linux kernel, and will not load.
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This is info for you to have on how to do things.

But it will do no good if driver is not correct one.

I assume you are getting it booted to a working desktop.

The terminal command that error is telling you to use, would be this in a terminal/console:

Code: Select all

nvidia-xconfig

when complete and you can close the terminal.

Then reboot the computer making sure the save is updated, so any change is now being used.