NVIDIA Driver for Porteus 5.0rc3

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NVIDIA Driver for Porteus 5.0rc3

Post#1 by ronriel » 13 Oct 2021, 11:53

What nvidia version works with porteus 5.0rc3 64 bit using kernel 5.12.14?
How can I install the driver?

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Post#2 by ncmprhnsbl » 13 Oct 2021, 13:14

http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.html eg. http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/port ... x86_64.xzm
that is : nvidia-470.42.01-k.5.12.14 for relatively recent cards @ last five/six years?
legacy drivers for older cards require patching for newer kernels and that's a bit tricky...
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NVIDIA Driver for Porteus 5.0rc3

Post#3 by Ed_P » 13 Oct 2021, 13:46

ronriel wrote:
13 Oct 2021, 11:53
How can I install the driver?
Place the downloaded .xzm module into your modules folder or extramod= folder and reboot.
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NVIDIA Driver for Porteus 5.0rc3

Post#4 by ronriel » 15 Oct 2021, 14:23

ncmprhnsbl wrote:
13 Oct 2021, 13:14
http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.html eg. http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/port ... x86_64.xzm
that is : nvidia-470.42.01-k.5.12.14 for relatively recent cards @ last five/six years?
legacy drivers for older cards require patching for newer kernels and that's a bit tricky...
Thank you for the link. The driver works! :thumbsup:

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NVIDIA Driver for Porteus 5.0rc3

Post#5 by Rava » 25 Oct 2021, 07:38

Since this thread not names any main driver versions (the first number before the ".") - e.g. 470, 340 or 304 - here some info on drivers for older hardware.
ncmprhnsbl wrote:
13 Oct 2021, 13:14
legacy drivers for older cards require patching for newer kernels and that's a bit tricky...
like, if your hardware is older and needs nvidia-340.108 - the most recent kernel I was able to compile the driver for is 5.4.30.
For nvidia-304.137 newest kernel is 4.16.3. :cry: And you need older xorg than the one shipped with Porteus 5.0rc3… =@
So far I did not have the time to try get nvidia-304.137 working with 5.0rc x86-64 Porteus, but I presume it is either impossible or you need to heavily rework the system (002-* and 003*) because some or even most GUI programs are picky with the used xorg version. :(
Cheers!
Yours Rava

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