[mythtv-users] Advice on getting Geforce MX440 to work

[Joshua Goldenhar]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:15, Derek M. A. Lee-Wo wrote:
> I just thought I would share some advice....
> 
> I was trying to setup a RedHat 9 box with MythTV last night.  I was
> following Jarod's well-written instructions when I got to the part about
> using apt-get to install the nVidia drivers.  I installed the drivers as
> instructed, but when I tried to bring up X-Windows after this, I kept
> getting a "no screens found" error message.  Nothing I tried fixed the
> problem.
> 
> Eventually, I decided to download the drivers directly from nVidia and
> ran the install process.  It had to do some recompiling, but once that
> was done, I was able to get X-Windows to come up.
> 
> Hopefully this would help other people witha similar problem save some
> troubleshooting time.

Hmm - I had no such problems using the rpms - but I did notice the
latest rpm drivers are not the same version as the latest drivers from
nvidia directly.

Josh
> 
> Derek