[mythtv-users] Problem w/ nVidia drivers 177.80???

[Harry Devine]

steve wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
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>> OK, I had problems with my on-board ATI Radeon X1200 video and drivers, 
>> so I put an nVidia Geforce 7300 (I think that's what is is) in.  After 
>> finally getting the latest drivers installed, the frontend seemed to 
>> take a long time coming up.  It just hangs out on the "Pre-scaling theme 
>> images" window for a long time.  I let it go about 20 minutes earlier 
>> and it never left there.
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>> So, since my box is still a "work in progress" and I don't have anything 
>> on it that can't be replaced, I figured I'd nuke it and reinstall 
>> Mythbuntu 8.10.  I figured that maybe some weird conflict between the 
>> ATI drivers and the nVidia drivers might be going on.  Well, no luck.  I 
>> reinstalled it and its doing the same thing.  Its been on the 
>> "Pre-scaling theme images" window for about 30 minutes now as I type this.
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>> When I set it up from the CD, I told it to use the 177.80 drivers.  I 
>> couldn't find anything about there being any problems with this set of 
>> drivers.  There was an option to use the 173 series.  Should I try going 
>> into the "Restricted Hardware Drivers" GUI and loading those?
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>> Harry
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> take a look at intrepid release notes, specifically the nvidia driver
> section.  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810
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> intrepid uses a new xorg and legacy drivers dont work with it. as far as
> I know nvidia is either working on a fix, or already has, not sure
> havent been following too close as I use a newer card.  may want to
> search ubuntu-users mailing list. you can find out exactly what card you
> have with the command lspci in a terminal.
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It got late last night, so I waited until tonight to run mythtv-setup 
after setting my xorg.conf driver setting to "nv" from "nvidia" as 
suggested.  Now, I'm running setup and I'm in the Video Source setup and 
it appears to hang.  I have an SSH connection open from my laptop and 
I'm running top, and I see Xorg is using 100% of my CPU.  WTF!!!

I switched from the onboard ATI Radeon X1200 graphics (which had poor 
driver support that would make my analog tuned channels come in as green 
"snow") to an nVidia GeForce 7100GS that I had in my old machine.  I 
switched because everwhere I look I see "nVidia has MUCH better linux 
support"; "stay away from ATI", etc.

Well from where I sit, they BOTH SUCK!  Why does it seem like I'm the 
only one who can't get a basic damn system going?  I see others writing 
"I installed <this> or <that> and it worked right out of the box".  
Sorry for the venting, but this is frustrating as hell!

Anyway, any ideas on what I can do here?  I'm running Mythbuntu 8.10 
x86_64, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic.
Harry