[mythtv-users] XvMC (again)

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed Jun 6 12:08:02 UTC 2007


David Watkins wrote:
> On 06/06/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Please excuse the multiple questions today, but I never get change to
>> tweak Myth and today I'm spending a whole day doing it! Not getting very
>> far so far as I'm just failing time after time to set a decent
>> resolution in xorg (see other thread), but this thread is about XvMC.
>>
>> I have a nVidia 5200, but I can't get XvMC to initialise.
>>
>> I've tried editing the XvMCConfig file in /etc/X11 from libXvMC.so.1 to
>> libXvMCVVIDIA_dynamic.so.1, but it still doesn't work.
>>
>> Is there anything else I need to do? Any log I should post to be more
>> helpful?
>>
>>
>> Ah, this may be the problem, but I don't understand what's going on ...
>> I just went to check my nvidia driver number in Settings (KDE/Kubuntu)
>> and found this:
>> Graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)
>> Driver - nv
>>
>> I don't see how this can be!?
>> The driver is set to "nvidia" in xorg, and I see the nvidia logo when I
>> boot up. What's going on?
>>     
>
>
> Maybe KDE is just 'remembering' the last setting that it knows about.
> Did you load the nvidia driver manually?
>
> Look in the xorg log.  That's normally pretty explicit about which
> driver is being used.
>   
I just posted my xorg log in the "Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines" thread. 


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