(The following lines are no ,,cry for help", just a description)
Today I tried to bring into use another old machine,500 MB RAM, GeForce 6600. Slitaz-3.0 runs well, Slitaz-vesa as well. With Slitaz-cooking one has to apply the cmd-line ,,nomodeset".
To use the normal way ,,tazhw setup nvidia --non-free" has no result at all. The package gets installed without any error, but then the card does not come into use. For schook kids this would be the final close - on the other hand slitaz-cooking performs well, just looks way less good than a distribution like Mandriva 2010.0 on the same machine. Below I can show how they do it, automatically, newbies couldn't do that manually.
So I question whether sucha thing would make sense on Slitaz.
Just some feed back for those interested - I tried some flavours on this machine:
- the new light-flavour of mojo (new kind of vesa): worked good, but ,,nomodeset"
- flavour ,,for kids": ok, but: in the bootline one has to type ,,lang=de kmap=de" in addition to nomodeset. Otherwise the keyboard does not react, neither the mouse, and after logout the screen remains black.
- flavour framebuffer fb: did not work, segmentation faults
To make use of the flexibility of Slitaz in order to be able to compile some module, some software, it would be nice to have a ,,ready" dev-version als .iso at hand, suited to the particular kernel version. Just thoughts...
<= By the way: urpmi installed automatically about 20-22 packages just for being able to compile the right module! In case one has to do all that manually... :-(
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Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/256.44-1mdv2010.0/source ->
/usr/src/nvidia-current-256.44-1mdv2010.0
DKMS: add Completed.
Preparing kernel 2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb for module build:
(This is not compiling a kernel, just preparing kernel symbols)
Storing current .config to be restored when complete
Running Generic preparation routine
make mrproper.............
using /proc/config.gz
make oldconfig......
make prepare....
Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb/build module..............................
cleaning build area....
cleaning kernel tree (make mrproper).......
DKMS: build Completed.
nvidia-current.ko.gz:
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb/dkms/drivers/char/drm/
depmod..........
DKMS: install Completed.
-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: nvidia-current
Version: 185.18.36-4mdv2010.0
Kernel: 2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb (i586)
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Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/256.44-1mdv2010.0/source ->
/usr/src/nvidia-current-256.44-1mdv2010.0
DKMS: add Completed.
Preparing kernel 2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb for module build:
(This is not compiling a kernel, just preparing kernel symbols)
Storing current .config to be restored when complete
Running Generic preparation routine
make mrproper.............
using /proc/config.gz
make oldconfig......
make prepare....
Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb/build module..............................
cleaning build area....
cleaning kernel tree (make mrproper).......
DKMS: build Completed.
nvidia-current.ko.gz:
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb/dkms/drivers/char/drm/
depmod..........
DKMS: install Completed.
-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: nvidia-current
Version: 185.18.36-4mdv2010.0
Kernel: 2.6.31.14-desktop586-1mnb (i586)
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Status: This module version was INACTIVE for this kernel.
depmod......
DKMS: uninstall Completed.
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Deleting module version: 185.18.36-4mdv2010.0
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
Danke für die Verwendung von smart-urpmi
Status: This module version was INACTIVE for this kernel.
depmod......
DKMS: uninstall Completed.
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Deleting module version: 185.18.36-4mdv2010.0
completely from the DKMS tree.
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