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?

Thank you!

-ronriel

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...

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.

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!

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.

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.