[mythtv-users] Gentoo 64bit and MythTV completely compatible?
Brad Fuller
bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 29 20:53:52 UTC 2007
David Brodbeck wrote:
> Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>> Mark Lehrer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Is anyone successfully running gentoo 64bit from the gentoo
>>>> repositories? That's including nvidia's driver. I tried 64bit a
>>>> while ago on FC2 (I think it was) and it just didn't work very
>>>> well. I'd like to try again but this time using gentoo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Gentoo is not really compatible with anything. Choose a better distro,
>>> like Ubuntu or Fedora.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That's a quite a statement without any material to substantiate your case.
>>
>>
>
> I think what he's getting at is that no one supplies binary drivers for
> Gentoo, for obvious reasons. If you want good video performance with
> Gentoo you're probably going to have to pick a card that has a driver
> with source code available, and that's not anything made by Nvidia.
>
I'm running the nvidia video driver on my gentoo box right now. Works great.
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