Puppy 4.3.1 and nVidia Chipset
Posted: Fri 25 Dec 2009, 13:42
After someone on another forum reminded me of my past fondness for Puppy Linux, I downed and burned version 4.3.1 for a fresh look.
With the exception of Sabayon Linux, no distro I've tried automatically loads the nVidia driver needed by my motherboard's chipset, and Puppy is in with the majority here. I had a version 173 driver in a .pet (Puppy's format) file, but installing it just killed X back to the command line.
I think my fairly new motherboard needs the 185 driver, but I don't remember how I got the NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet that I used and which didn't work.
Later: I found a thread with a link to some .pet's and downloaded the 185 version. But when I tried to install it, Puppy said it couldn't do it. I'll try a fresh download from inside Puppy where I am now.
OK, that worked, and it's installed. Now to restart X and hope for the best.
Even later: I'm back in Ubuntu Karmic, because the 185 .pet killed X just like the 173 .pet did. Maybe I'll try copying the xorg.conf from Ubuntu to Puppy.
Lane
With the exception of Sabayon Linux, no distro I've tried automatically loads the nVidia driver needed by my motherboard's chipset, and Puppy is in with the majority here. I had a version 173 driver in a .pet (Puppy's format) file, but installing it just killed X back to the command line.
I think my fairly new motherboard needs the 185 driver, but I don't remember how I got the NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet that I used and which didn't work.
Later: I found a thread with a link to some .pet's and downloaded the 185 version. But when I tried to install it, Puppy said it couldn't do it. I'll try a fresh download from inside Puppy where I am now.
OK, that worked, and it's installed. Now to restart X and hope for the best.
Even later: I'm back in Ubuntu Karmic, because the 185 .pet killed X just like the 173 .pet did. Maybe I'll try copying the xorg.conf from Ubuntu to Puppy.
Lane