Nvidia drivers

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meeki · #61 Post by **meeki** » Sat 07 Sep 2013, 11:08

Well made a few more changes.

Found out that it was missing that fact that nouveau was not being detected as running.

# 6sep2013: [Meeki] added LH64 to the skip of msg to run xorg after reboot (see line 286)
# 6sep2013: [Meeki] -a changed to -o meeki (see line 280)
# 6sep2013: [Meeki] tons of edits (see line 284 to 290)

Here is the file with changes.
nvidia - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/129 ... use/nvidia

Also some unofficial pets

32bit getnvidia-unofficial
pet - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/129 ... .9.8.1.pet
md5 - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/129 ... .1.pet.md5

64bit getnvidia-unofficial
pet - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/129 ... 9.9-64.pet
md5 - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/129 ... 64.pet.md5

All these edits were done in Lighthouse64 (64bit puppy)
I don't know if it will fix or break the current kernel check issue in another distro.

Keef · #62 Post by **Keef** » Sat 07 Sep 2013, 11:36

meeki

Check the file structure of your pets. The 32bit one won't install because the important bits are buried in several layers of directories from your system.

meeki · #63 Post by **meeki** » Sun 08 Sep 2013, 01:04

Keef wrote:meeki

Check the file structure of your pets. The 32bit one won't install because the important bits are buried in several layers of directories from your system.

Yep, looks like I did botch the pet build.

Fixed it. rather fixed two letters in my rightclick dir2pet app for rox.
the dir structure you see is from building the pet not in the containing dir.

shinobar · #64 Post by **shinobar** » Fri 18 Oct 2013, 14:11

EDIT: Sorry, the getnvidia-0.9.9 was wrong in the permission of /root/Startup/nvidia.
Check the permission of /root/Startup/nvidia and add executable bits if it isn't, by 'chmod +x /root/Startup/nvidia'. Fixed in the getnvidia-0.9.9.1.

getnvidia-0.9.9.pet to install NVIDIA driver / build SFS/PET.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

For 64bit Puppies, Fatdog 64 or Lighthouse 64, try
getnvidia-0.9.9-64.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup64/

# 4sep2013: [Meeki] Must check xconfig file with nvidia-xconfig -t (see line(s) 255-258 & 296-304)
# 6sep2013: [Meeki] added LH64 to the skip of msg to run xorg after reboot (see line 286)
# 6sep2013: [Meeki] -a changed to -o meeki (see line 280)
# 6sep203: [Meeki] tons of edits (see line 284 to 290)
#v0.9.9: 17oct2013: nvidia sfs first, nvidia old version numbers, kernel version from Makefile

shinobar · #65 Post by **shinobar** » Tue 22 Oct 2013, 09:58

Sorry, the getnvidia-0.9.9 was wrong in the permission of /root/Startup/nvidia.
Check the permission of /root/Startup/nvidia and add executable bits if it isn't, by 'chmod +x /root/Startup/nvidia'. Fixed in the getnvidia-0.9.9.1.

getnvidia-0.9.9.1.pet to install NVIDIA driver / build SFS/PET.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

For 64bit Puppies, Fatdog 64 or Lighthouse 64, try
getnvidia-0.9.9.1-64.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup64/

shinobar · #66 Post by **shinobar** » Wed 23 Oct 2013, 00:17

getnvidia-1.0.pet to install NVIDIA driver / build SFS/PET.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

For 64bit Puppies, Fatdog 64 or Lighthouse 64, try
getnvidia-1.0-64.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup64/

#v0.9.9.1: 22oct2013: fix was /root/Startup/nvidia not executable
#v1.0: 22oct2013: fix was LANG reset to en_US

version2013 · #67 Post by **version2013** » Tue 14 Jan 2014, 22:43

Thank you for all your effort on this getnvidia package!
Thank you for adding the ability to build a pet/sfs from an older nvidia*.run file!

8-bit · #68 Post by **8-bit** » Wed 12 Feb 2014, 04:37

I am running Puppy Slacko 5.5 and mt video card is the Nvidia 7300 LE.
I tried both driver PETS that are associated with an Nvidia driver for it and neither worked.
I can live with using the nuveau driver, but thought I would pass my problem along.

georg1 · #69 Post by **georg1** » Tue 19 Aug 2014, 14:20

I got slacko 5.7.0
nvidia geforce mx 440 videocard and that driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1.run
used propper kernel and devx
use getnvidia 1.0
and allways wind up with this proble, some files missing

log

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nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Aug 19 16:09:30 2014
installer version: 1.0.7

PATH:
/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/root/my-applicatio
ns/bin:/usr/games

option status:
  license pre-accepted               : true
  update                             : false
  force update                       : false
  expert                             : false
  uninstall                          : false
  driver info                        : false
  precompiled interfaces             : false
  no ncurses color                   : false
  query latest version               : false
  OpenGL header files                : true
  no questions                       : true
  silent                             : true
  no recursion                       : false
  no backup                          : false
  kernel module only                 : false
  sanity                             : false
  add this kernel                    : false
  no runlevel check                  : false
  no network                         : false
  no ABI note                        : false
  no RPMs                            : false
  no kernel module                   : false
  force SELinux                      : default
  no X server check                  : false
  no cc version check                : true
  run distro scripts                 : true
  no nouveau check                   : false
  run nvidia-xconfig                 : false
  sigwinch work around               : true
  force tls                          : (not specified)
  X install prefix                   : (not specified)
  X library install path             : (not specified)
  X module install path              : (not specified)
  OpenGL install prefix              : (not specified)
  OpenGL install libdir              : (not specified)
  utility install prefix             : (not specified)
  utility install libdir             : (not specified)
  installer prefix                   : (not specified)
  doc install prefix                 : (not specified)
  kernel name                        : 3.10.32
  kernel include path                : (not specified)
  kernel source path                 : (not specified)
  kernel output path                 : (not specified)
  kernel install path                :
/lib/modules/3.10.32/kernel/drivers/video/
  precompiled kernel interfaces path : (not specified)
  precompiled kernel interfaces url  : (not specified)
  proc mount point                   : /proc
  ui                                 : none
  tmpdir                             : /var/tmp
  ftp mirror                         : ftp://download.nvidia.com
  RPM file list                      : (not specified)
  selinux chcon type                 : (not specified)

Using built-in stream user interface
-> License accepted by command line option.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 96.43.23.
-> Not probing for precompiled kernel interfaces.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/3.10.32/source'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/3.10.32/build'
ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure
       you either have configured kernel sources matching your
       kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed
       on your system.
       
       If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
       you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
       installed on your system. If you specified a separate
       output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or
       the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this
       directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with
       the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
       
       Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the
       kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify
       their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or
       the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
       '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions
       on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
       driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

shinobar · #70 Post by **shinobar** » Mon 08 Jun 2015, 21:12

georg1 wrote:I got slacko 5.7.0
nvidia geforce mx 440 videocard and that driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1.run
used propper kernel and devx
use getnvidia 1.0
and allways wind up with this proble, some files missing

Some old nvidia drivers for kernel 3.x need patches.
See..
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95382

shinobar · #71 Post by **shinobar** » Mon 08 Jun 2015, 21:22

In some case, the GL library fails. The nvidia-settings complains "Failed to query the GLX server vendor." for OpenGL/GLX Information (see the attached image).

SOLUTION:
1. Remove the links, /usr/lib/libGL.so and libGL.so.1.
2. Restart the X server.

peebee · #72 Post by **peebee** » Fri 12 Jun 2015, 07:55

Hi

I am having problems making the 304.125 driver for kernel 4 with getnvidia.

I have tried various combinations of devx and kernel 4 versions but they all exhibit the same errors.

The errors produced by trying to make a 304.125 driver for vividpup + kernel 4.0.4-32-pae are attached below (remove false .gz).

Anybody tried this? Found any patches? (how do you apply patches to the .run file??)

Annybody know how to do the suggested:

Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.

Thanks
peebee

666philb · #73 Post by **666philb** » Sat 13 Jun 2015, 07:20

hi peebee, open a terminal in /usr/src/linux and try running that command

peebee · #74 Post by **peebee** » Sat 13 Jun 2015, 16:22

see later post below

peebee · #75 Post by **peebee** » Thu 03 Sep 2015, 06:15

Looks like nvidia driver 304.128 is now available:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.128/

I'll try later to build on kernel 4....

[6-sep-15] Update: Yep - success - built AOK for k4.0.4-tahr_PAE-32-pae in LxPup15.06

Also AOK for k4.1.6-EmSee-32-pae

peebee · #76 Post by **peebee** » Sun 06 Sep 2015, 15:32

There have been other recent updates besides 304.128 on ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/

e.g.
340.93
346.96
352.41
355.11

Argolance · #77 Post by **Argolance** » Thu 22 Oct 2015, 11:19

Bonjour,
I am running Puppy Precise 5.7.1 with kernel 3.9.11.
I tried to use getnividia to build a 340.93 NVIDIA driver SFS file.
I loaded the devx, downloaded/loaded the "kernel_src-3.9.11-patched.sfs" from BK repository, installed getnvidia and so on. Unfortunately, getnvidia says that my kernel source package does not match with the running kernel.

What's wrong?
Thank you for your attention.

Corldialement.

Argolance · #78 Post by **Argolance** » Thu 22 Oct 2015, 15:04

Sorry! The "kernel_src-3.9.11-patched.sfs" was in the list of mounted sfs, but only queued and not really loaded: this is why getnvidia displayed the error message. As this may happen to "unexperimented" users like me, I do not delete my message...
Thank you to shinobar for getnvidia which is really amazing and did the work perfectly.

Cordialement.

peebee · #79 Post by **peebee** » Wed 23 Dec 2015, 14:41

Heads up!

With kernels 4.3 onwards, if the kernel is configured:

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CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH="sha1"

any new modules compiled for that kernel will need to be cryptographically signed using utility /usr/src/linux/scripts/sign-file
found in the kernel-sources.

GetNvidia will need to be updated to include signing if nvidia drivers are to continue working on kernels 4.3 onwards.

For example, nvidia-304.131 fails to build for stemsee's kernel 4.3.2 because module loading fails because the module is not signed.

(there is a futher problem with stemsee's 4.3.2 that sign-file does not work due to some problem with missing version information for libcrypto).

Cheers
peebee

rufwoof · #80 Post by **rufwoof** » Sat 02 Jan 2016, 01:25

peebee wrote:Heads up!

With kernels 4.3 onwards, if the kernel is configured:
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CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH="sha1"
any new modules compiled for that kernel will need to be cryptographically signed using utility /usr/src/linux/scripts/sign-file
found in the kernel-sources.

GetNvidia will need to be updated to include signing if nvidia drivers are to continue working on kernels 4.3 onwards.

For example, nvidia-304.131 fails to build for stemsee's kernel 4.3.2 because module loading fails because the module is not signed.

(there is a futher problem with stemsee's 4.3.2 that sign-file does not work due to some problem with missing version information for libcrypto).

Cheers
peebee

I'm running Tahr 6.0.5 with Stemsee's 4.3.2 32bit pae kernel and downloaded/compiled NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.96.run OK and its apparently working fine with my 8600GT nvidia graphics card (I used Shinobar's getnvidia-1.0.pet to perform the compile).

Looking at the DotConfig the configuration matches what you posted above.

Don't really know what I'm doing, just follow the instructions - but from my perspective it all looks fine !!??

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