installing proprietary drivers seems impossible

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

I tried a number of things on a fresh liveUSB (2010-01-11 evening iso)

1. jockey-gtk - showed no drivers available

2. downloaded installer from nvidia.com, followed instructions
2.a. the kernel header package i installed was full of broken links and not much else (include/linux/kernel.h -> nowhere useful)
2.b. the kernel source package i installed and manually unpacked was not configured (include/linux/version.h missing)

[Claude Heiland-Allen (claudiusmaximus)]

reports in irc that similar problems occur with the non-free broadcom wireless driver

[samotham (samotham)]

dunno if it helps but jockey-gtk doesn't show nvidia drivers anymore on my dell laptop (nvidia 86000 gt).
This bug seems to be related :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/493049

[samotham (samotham)]

(i say "dunno if it helps" cause it's on my ubuntu 9.04 but it seems i'll get the same issue on 9.10 so on puredyne-live as well)

[Claude Heiland-Allen (claudiusmaximus)]

Some minor changes to broth.sh and I built a binary.iso with the Ubuntu stock linux-rt kernel, testing is still in progress but:

1. boots fine in virtualbox
2. boots fine from liveusb made with bouilloncube
3. liveusb persistence works too

On the down (?) side, the linux-rt metapackage pulls in the linux-headers, which take some space, but they're kinda crucial for compiling drivers...

=== modified file 'broth.sh'
--- broth.sh 2010-01-08 22:08:50 +0000
+++ broth.sh 2010-01-12 21:31:27 +0000
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 # global variables
 BUILDER=`whoami`
 BROTH_DIRECTORY=`pwd`
-PUREDYNE_LINUX="linux-image-2.6.31-5"
+PUREDYNE_LINUX="linux"
 #PUREDYNE_LINUX="linux-image"
 PUREDYNE_ARCH="i386"

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     --username "lintian" \
     --language "en" \
     --linux-packages $PUREDYNE_LINUX \
- --linux-flavours "pure" \
+ --linux-flavours "rt" \
     --archive-areas "main restricted universe multiverse" \
     --architecture $PUREDYNE_ARCH \
     --mode "ubuntu" \

[Loz (misterloz)]

This is great. Been having huge problems with wireless because of this.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen
<email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Changed in: puredyne-live
>       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
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> installing proprietary drivers seems impossible
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506165
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> Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: Fix Committed
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> Bug description:
> I tried a number of things on a fresh liveUSB (2010-01-11 evening iso)
>
> 1. jockey-gtk - showed no drivers available
>
> 2. downloaded installer from nvidia.com, followed instructions
> 2.a. the kernel header package i installed was full of broken links and not much else (include/linux/kernel.h -> nowhere useful)
> 2.b. the kernel source package i installed and manually unpacked was not configured (include/linux/version.h missing)
>
>
>
>
>