[mythtv-users] Nvidia Driver Woes

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Jun 24 17:31:04 EDT 2004


On Thursday 24 June 2004 14:16, pete wrote:
> I Had a similar problem, it was locking up on KDE loading. what ended up
> fixing it was commenting out the line in XF86Config
>
> Option "RenderAccel" "1"
>
> I no longer have lock ups.

Another possible culprit is NvAGP. Switching to the opposite of whatever 
you're using might help.


> At 04:56 PM 6/24/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi, All.  My friends myth machine is running FC1 and has an Nvidia geforce
> >4mx card in it.  Following Jarod's guide he installed nvidia-graphics4363
> >drivers.  For whatever reason this thing hangs hard (random garbage on
> >screen) when the driver fires up.  The machine is completely hung at that
> >point.
> >
> >The only thing I can think to do is uninstall the drivers completely and
> >reinstall them.  I'm not even sure how to do that.  Anyone else have any
> > ideas?

Uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers shouldn't make a difference. This 
isn't Windows. ;-)

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