[mythtv-users] 1080i content and xv

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jan 12 01:51:23 UTC 2006


On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:

> Sorry, I need a little hand holding here.
>
> I assume I can unload the nVidia driver by issuing
>
> #modprobe -r /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp/updates/drivers/ 
> video/nvidia/nvidia-1_0-7676.ko

Or just "rmmod nvidia", "lsmod" will tell you if it's still there or  
not.
>
> but loading the nv driver, I'm not so sure about.
>
> Can I just replace the
>
> Driver "nvidia" line in xorg.conf with, Driver "xv" and restart x?

Yes, normally, but I have heard tell of nVidia setups where it still  
loads nVidia even if you do that. The actual X server is an  
executable usually linked to "X" (note the cap) someplace like /usr/ 
X11R6/bin (seems like everybody puts it in a different place.

That should be "nv" not "xv", I'm assuming that was a typo. "xv" is  
something completely different.

My guess is that if commenting out "load glx" does not work then  
loading "nv" instead of nvidia will not work either, but you never know.


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