nvidia driver

[beny]

the nvidia driver for porteus64 are on the same folder:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5o2k04228v460w8

[Pedro]

I cant make this driver to work. During boot i get a message of possible problem in the module. I tryed redownloading but same problem.
Pedro

[fanthom]

"unsquashfs porteus-nvidia64.lzm
Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on porteus-nvidia64.lzm"

bad upload?

[beny]

mediafire,i delete file and reuploads i have installed driver and i have to loads module for check sanity.

Posted after 27 minutes 50 seconds:
hi pedro you can downloads file, i have uploaded again please check it.

[Kaso_Da_Zmok]

hi beny,
i can't find the nvidia module.
could you also describe how did you compile the nvidia module briefly?
thanks.

[beny]

hi http://www.mediafire.com/beny look for the nvidia folder and porteus64.lzm,i have uploaded two time file,tell me if work or not please

[Pedro]

Thanks beny, driver is now working fine:)

[fanthom]

stripped and added to official repo:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/current/ ... x86_64.lzm

Thanks!

[francois]

Thanks beny.

Your nvidia 64 bit rc2 works fine for me.

[francois]

I am working with a porteus hdd install, with a save changes folder. Nvidia will work for me with porteus 64-bit v 1.0 if I blacklist nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

Ahau, to get the same result, makes the proposition of modification of the xorg.conf :
http://porteus.org/info/docs/46-video/1 ... river.html

[fanthom]

@all
nouveau is blacklisted by default in Porteus. it get's loaded only when user is going to GUI and when other drivers (like nvidia, nv) are unavailable.
check /etc/modprobe.d/BLACKLIST-nouveau.conf
reference:
/var/log/packages/xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist-noarch-1

[francois]

And you are right. I was probably using the nvidia driver with the wrong architecture.

Sorry, for the false alert.

[Ahau]

Hrm -- that's not the experience I had. I'll double check, but I thought that if I simply drop the nvidia driver in my /porteus/modules folder, my system still defaults to nouveau, unless I blacklist it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf or modify xorg.conf to point to nvidia AND disable xconf.

I'm going to download the driver again and test this to make sure--though I don't think I would have written a HOWTO for this if it had worked for me out of the box

[francois]

@ahau:

Expecting a comeback on your investigations! 8)

[Ahau]

Thanks for the reminder

Well, I downloaded the nVidia driver module from the Porteus server, dropped it into my /porteus/modules folder, and on the next reboot, it started up the nVidia driver automatically... I don't know what I was doing wrong before lol.

However, the font is still too large in some places, so I would still need to customize my xorg.conf and remove xconf from my /boot/porteus.cfg as specified in the HOWTO.