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

[Harry Devine]

steve 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?
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>>>> 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!!!
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> Anyway, any ideas on what I can do here?  I'm running Mythbuntu 8.10 
>> x86_64, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic.
>> Harry
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> taking a stab in the dark here.... can you disable the onboard graphics
> in bios?
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> anyone else?
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Yep, did that already.  Actually, I had to power it off, take out the 
battery, clear the CMOS with a jumper, then put it all back for my MB to 
recognize it.  Then I reinstalled from scratch just to be sure that no 
ATI leftovers would be there to hose anything up.  Its completetly a 
fresh install right now.

Thanks,
Harry