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totoetsasoeur

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Here are the steps I had to follow in order to install NVIDIA non-free driver for my laptop (Lenovo T61P-NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M).

As the 4.0-RC2 could not launch any X session on my laptop, I did the following:

0) download from NVIDIA web site the file <NVIDIA-Linux-xf86-295.20.run> and store it on an accessible partition,

1) installation of slitaz 4.0-RC2-base, on a free partition,

2) reboot and login as root on terminal (TTY1),

3) install the following:

#tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain

#tazpkg get-install ncurses-dev

#tazpkg get-install perl

#tazpkg get-install linux-source

#tazpkg get-install xorg-server

4)get the linux sources (thx bellard)

#get-linux-source

5)run nvidia script:

#cp /whereitis/<NVIDIA-Linux-xf86-295.20.run> /home/tux

#chmod +x /home/tux/NVIDIA-Linux-xf86-295.20.run

#./NVIDIA-Linux-xf86-295.20.run

=> answer the questions (quite straight forward)

6) load the modul:

#modprobe -v nvidia

7) start x session:

# /etc/init.d/slim start

8) enjoy it! :-)

Cheers.

PS: if a dev guy could do a package for it, it would so great.

tvicol

Member

Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Thank you totoetsasoeur !

I have installed 4.0-RC2 and followed your above steps one by one.

All went ok, but at the final I´m still ¨enjoying¨ same error as before.

Backtrace:

[ 2489.864] 0: Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x30) [0x80c700c]

[ 2489.864] Illegal instruction at address 0xb5dec9b1

[ 2489.865]

Fatal server error:

[ 2489.865] Caught signal 4 (Illegal instruction). Server aborting

[ 2489.865]

[ 2489.865]

Regards,

Tibi

totoetsasoeur

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Please give more lines of your Xorg.0.log. The ones with [EE] should give some hints.

tvicol

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Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Thank you for your response !

Xorg.0.log : http://pastebin.com/y3TfspSF

Regards,

Tibi

totoetsasoeur

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

What about this warning:

[ 2488.467] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

tvicol

Member

Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Thanks for looking into this.

I don´t know too much about acpid, but looks like is not related to the error I get in final.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/acpid

Regards,

Tibi

tvicol

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Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Looks like my problem is more related to this http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/strange-errors-on-older-computers

I´m running Slitaz on an old Siemens-Nixdorf PII 350Mhz. However the processor is an Intel one.

Regards,

Tibi

totoetsasoeur

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

So it is probably more related to xorg and glibc than to nvidia driver!!

What is the graphic board?

How much ram?

tvicol

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Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

[ 2489.826] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 (NV34) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)

[ 2489.826] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes

Regards,

Tibi

totoetsasoeur

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

According to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-173.14.31-driver.html, you need to work with nvidia version 173.14.31, not the one I used.

tvicol

Member

Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Re: slitaz 4.0-RC2: install nvidia non-free drivers

Yes, I used NVIDIA 173.14.31

You can see this in the log http://pastebin.com/y3TfspSF

[ 2488.984] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 173.14.31 Sun Jul 17 22:43:28 PDT 2011

Again many thanks for your time and for looking into this issue.

Regards,

Tibi