Puppyszoftver Files

You can find 32/64 bit kernels (vmlinuz), kernel modules (zdrv*), firmware stuff (fdrv*), and kernel-specific nvidia driver(s) in the related subfolders at

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1saE8qoHMzH_gAIhHLmN3u5MN9Px_zN3i

They have been tested with different nvidia cards in Puli (please notice that the Puli versions appear in the name of the zdrv files).

However, please note that one or more of the the nvidia drivers can be incompatible with your nvidia card.

Please check the compatibility list, for example, here:

   https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

   (First, click on a driver in the Linux x86_64/AMD64 group. Then, in the Download Drivers screen, check whether your card is listed in the Supported Products tab).

If you found an appropriate nvidia pet file (at the above Puli link),

  1. Download it, 
  2. Put it into the /packages folder of your USB boot device,
  3. Reference it in the machine specific env-<macaddress>/smartload file(s).
  4. Ensure that the nouveau.modeset= 0 command appears in the syslinux.cfg and/or the grub.cfg file. See an example for syslinuc.cfg below:
     
    default vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash nouveau.modeset=0 pfix=ram pkeys=hu plang=hu_HU.UTF-8

If you can't see a compatible 64-bit nvidia driver among the ones proposed for Puli, then try to browse at

   https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-xenial64/ 
   https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-bionic64/
   https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-fossa64/

Please note that the third party nvidia drives needs rebooting the machine after installation, which is not acceptable for Puli. 
This is why I made some tricks to allow the nvidia drivers at the above Puli link run directly, i.e., without rebooting.
I recommend that you do the same with the third party drivers.


Have fun!

Regards,

gjuhasz