[mythtv-users] Need some guidance on which Nvidia driver to load from atrmps

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jeffrey Born <jeff.born at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of building a FC8 machine for mythtv.  I'm currently
> setting up the nvidia drivers and not really sure which one I want to
> install via yum.
>
> Here is the list I get:
>
> yum search nvidia
>  libXNVCtrl.x86_64 : Library providing the NV-CONTROL API
> libXNVCtrl-devel.x86_64 : Development files for libXNVCtrl
> nvidia-x11-drv-96xx.x86_64 : Proprietary NVIDIA hardware accelerated OpenGL
> display driver
>  nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 : Proprietary NVIDIA hardware accelerated OpenGL
> display driver
> nvclock.x86_64 : Utility that allows users to overclock NVIDIA based video
> cards
>  libXNVCtrl.i386 : Library providing the NV-CONTROL API
>  nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64 : Compatibility 32bit files for the 64bit
> Proprietary NVIDIA driver
> nvidia-x11-drv-97xx.x86_64 : Proprietary NVIDIA hardware accelerated OpenGL
> display driver
>  libXNVCtrl-devel.i386 : Development files for libXNVCtrl
>
>
> I'm running a 64 bit install.. my kernel version is:
>
> 2.6.24.3-50.fc8
>
> Thanks for all the information
> _______________________________________________

You definitely want one of the "nvidia-x11-drv" ones but which depends
on which video chipset you have. The 96xx and 97xx ones are for
"legacy" support. I know I needed to use the 96xx version with my
GeForce 4000 MX.

Richard