Porteus

Not sure if this is the right place, but is there any plans for the driver module for nVidia 173? My graphics card uses this module and didn't spot it. I am going to try using the one from 3.0 Porteus (EDIT: this failed and it reverted to vesa).

I appreciate the work of the developers of Porteus. Very cool distro. However on a side note I can't use Porteus with the open source nVidia drivers (or vesa for the same reason) since it seems to permalock my monitor at an insanely high resolution and blurs everything. With the "official" drivers, I can set my resolution to the proper size. Yes I realize I should probably buy a new graphics card but AGP cards are getting harder to find

Hi Mario
It seems not to be possible
Look here:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 165#p29705
You can use the kernel-module, vmlinuz and the 173.xx driver from 3.0.1

Why don't you build it yourself for your porteus system.

The nvidia package for 173:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-disp ... .28-driver
The procedure:
viewtopic.php?f=117&t=3978&start=60

donald wrote:Hi Mario
It seems not to be possible
Look here:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 165#p29705
You can use the kernel-module, vmlinuz and the 173.xx driver from 3.0.1

Might have to try this route.

francois wrote:Why don't you build it yourself for your porteus system.

The nvidia package for 173:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-disp ... .28-driver
The procedure:
viewtopic.php?f=117&t=3978&start=60

The above post seems to point to it just not working. Plus Porteus is just not usable on my setup with vesa. Blurry screen with a resolution so high I just can't make out anything. Would be impossible to follow any instructions in such an environment. I will try the old kernel.

What is the output for your graphic card? Did you think to use xrandr?

In the autostart file a command like: should do the job.

What are the screen definitions for your screen?

xrandr:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#TwinView
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3203

Fixing a single screen resolution is possible with xrandr:
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ostid37773

francois wrote:What is the output for your graphic card?

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lspci |grep VGA

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lspci

Did you think to use xrandr?

In the autostart file a command like:

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768

should do the job.

What are the screen definitions for your screen?

xrandr:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#TwinView
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3203

Fixing a single screen resolution is possible with xrandr:
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ostid37773

Have not had a chance to try this, been sick for the last five days. Might give it a shot. Did want to point out that when using the LXQt environment, the program to change the screen resolution just doesn't seem to work. It loads, shows the different resolutions the screen can be set to, but setting it then clicking apply and/or save literally does nothing but ask me if the current resolution is fine. When I am feeling better I will try the above and see how it goes.

I am already beginning to miss LXDE and beginning to think the Porteus team responsible for the ditching of LXDE support in the latest release was a tad too hasty. No other desktop option in the build Porteus page is usable on my system except LXDE and it seems to be going away (along with support for my graphics card).