[mythtv-users] New Nvidia drivers announced

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 23 09:36:30 EST 2003


On Tuesday 23 December 2003 02:48, David Rees wrote:
> David Rees wrote:
> > On Mon, December 22, 2003 1at 2:06 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >>Looks like Nvidia have released new Linux drivers.  Who's going to
> >> be the first to be brave enough to try the -5328 drivers? I'm
> >> sticking with -4363 until I hear some good reports.
> >
> > I'll give them a shot tonight and report back.  Is there an Nvidia
> > announce list for software updates that you know of?
>
> Well, I gave them a shot on my almost vanilla 2.4.23 system but it
> generated an Oops when loading the module.  Back to -4496 for now.
>
> Supposed the patches at minion.de are supposed to work with 2.4, but
> they don't compile for me.  :-(
>
> -Dave

Why are you running 4496?  The 'good' version for Myth is 4363, since 
that's the only one that supports vblank sync & GF4MX overscan.  
Though, if you don't care about either of those features, then I guess 
it doesn't matter!

-JAC



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