[mythtv-users] Switched from ATI to Nvidia. AGPGART problem

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 02:31, Adam Propeck wrote:
> I recently switched to an Nvidia 6200w/256MB RAM from an ATI FireGL X1. I
> didn't do a clean system install, and am wondering if this may be the cause
> of some problems I'm having with the Nvidia. I can't get the NVAGP to be
> used even though I have NVAGP "1" in my xorg.conf. Dmesg shows that the
> AGPGART is being utilized instead. I simply used YUM to pull down one of
> the 8xxx versions of the Nvidia driver, and I am thinking that by not
> "uninstalling" the old ATI drivers, that I may have caused the YUM install
> to fail to copy over the NVAGP files correctly. Is this a possibility? Is
> there an easy way to get the ATI junk uninstalled if I used the Binary
> download from ati.com? Should I try using the Nvidia binary .run file and
> see if that fixes it?
>
> Re-installing wouldn't be too bad actually. I'm thinking that if I simply
> backed up my mythconverg database before doing so, that I should be able to
> keep my old recordings showing up correctly, right? Could I make a switch
> in versions of Linux and still keep the recording export out of mySQL? I
> was thinking about giving Kubuntu a shot. Thanks, -Adam

is there a reason you want to use NVAGP? I don't think its any better than 
AGPART..

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Steve