nvidia driver 185.18.31 how (SOLVED)

[pimboli]

I tried everything!!!

I used another display, set display mode...

..but I don't get nvidia driver running :/

Could perhaps someone of you test the nvidia driver on your system?!?

Please please help me

[pimboli]

Does anyone have nvidia drivers running on tinycore

[pimboli]

after installing the nvidia driver with --force-tls=new
I get the message: could not open display

Then I took the xorg  conf from my ubuntu install on the same PC,
but it didnt work..

does someone have a hint?

[pimboli]

Please can someony create a nvidia driver package with the lastest driver..

I will spend mony by PAYPAL!!!

I love tinycore but need the **** nvidia driver

[tclfan]

What I am saying may not be feasible to accomplish, but considering that Austrumi (Another tiny linux run completely in memory) has nVidia and ATI 3D drivers nicely integrated by default, can we reach to their team and ask to contribute to Tinycore, by creating such TCZ modules? This is not to say that Tinycore development team cannot do this, but rather to say that available bandwidth and priorities are always an issue and sharing development across teams would be productive.
These three distro's (Austrumi, SliTaz and Tinycore) should team up on common ground. If appointing leadership is necessary, then I think this role should be awarded to Tinycore.

[pimboli]

I like tiny core so I would not like to change..

So could you please talk to the other teams to get a driver package?


thanks

[tclfan]

I like tiny core so I would not like to change..

So could you please talk to the other teams to get a driver package?
thanks

I am not suggesting to change. I like Tinycore too. What I was suggesting was that some ground development for these distro's could be collaborated to leverage each other's work and experience. This is not proprietary for-sale systems we are talking after all, so there should be no bariers of corporate secrecy...
Another aspect: Austrumi did fantastic job in putting together really nice live all in memory system, however it runs as root. This is not acceptable to me for regular use, the same way it is not acceptable to use Puppy for the same reason. Slitaz and Tinycore is the right way in that respect, but Tinycore has a significant advantage - modular architecture. Tinycore is the way to go for me...

[Juanito]

Please can someony create a nvidia driver package with the lastest driver..

Where is the latest driver? Once you have the driver, it might not be too difficult to compile using the blfs instructions?

[pimboli]

 here it is: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run

I tried to compile it like in the blfs or like on other distros.

Yesterday I compiled it on slitaz without any problem, perhaps tinycore has some kernel paches that causes the errors?!

[Juanito]

It's not clear from your first post, but did you try the nv_drv driver in the Xorg extension?

[pimboli]

yes I also tried the NV driver, but this one is to old, it does't support the new Nvidia ION chip.

And It does't have vdpau support.

[stoic]

Just to let you know I'm in the same boat.
I have a machine with integrated nvidia 6100 (I think) graphics, and a PCI Express 8600 GT (using one or the other, not both at once).

I compiled the latest nvidia driver and with both the onboard and pci express graphics I get the same result as pimboli. The screen flashes, then goes black. I can still access the machine through SSH. The last line in my log is the same as pimpoli's, about GLX. I tried disabling that, but it makes no difference.

The nv driver supports the 8600 GT (though not the integrated graphics) but the XVideo extension doesn't work, so video has lines running through it.

[pimboli]

nice to know that I'm not the only one with this problem 

[Juanito]

I had a go at compileing the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run driver and it looks like it would work if I had the correct hardware - at least the nvidia kernel module compiles OK...

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-> Kernel module compilation complete.
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'.  This happens most
       frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or
       improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs
       from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as
       rivafb/nvidiafb is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from
       obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s), or NVIDIA GPU
       installed in this system is not supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics
       driver release.
      
       Please see the log entries 'Kernel module load error' and 'Kernel
       messages' at the end of the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for
       more information.
-> Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko':
   -1 Unknown symbol in module
-> Kernel messages:
...
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_bind_memory
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_enable
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_backend_acquire
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_bridges
   nvidia: Unknown symbol i2c_del_adapter
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_free_memory
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_allocate_memory
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_unbind_memory
   nvidia: Unknown symbol i2c_add_adapter
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_copy_info
   nvidia: Unknown symbol agp_backend_release
   Linux agpgart interface v0.103
   agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GM Chipset
   agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7932K stolen memory
   agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
   intel_rng: FWH not detected
   drm: Unknown symbol i2c_transfer
   intel_rng: FWH not detected
   i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
   [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
   NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
..but it appears that the agpgart, drm and i2c errors above have been acted on as the relevant modules are loaded:

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$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia_agp              2944  0
drm                    84616  0
i2c_i801                5280  0
i2c_core                9980  2 drm,i2c_i801
intel_agp              14984  1
agpgart                15724  2 drm,intel_agp
..i.e. this might work on a machine with the correct hardware.

To get this far, I used the full kernel source and the default tinycore .config - there is an error message stating that the kernel source cannot be found, but if you answer "OK" to try to download an nvidia kernel source, the local kernel source is used anyway...

[pimboli]

You have to install the graphics Package wich

has the agpgart Module .

On my Board I installed the graphics.tze and than
modprobe agpgart and Intel-agp

After that the Kernel compiles and get load, but it won't Start...