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

[Dan Wilga]

I agree with Fred that the driver you want to be using is "nvidia", not "nv".

I also recently ran into problems with MFE hanging after loading the 
images. The log was spewing tons of error messages about GLX not 
being present.

The reason for this was the annoying graphic card autodetection stuff 
built into the distro I use (Mandriva). I had just switched graphic 
cards and, noticing this, it decided that the best driver for me to 
use was "nv". Even though I switched back to a previous Xorg.conf 
that used "nvidia", it had also replaced the GLX drivers with the 
open source ones that don't work with "nvidia".

I recommend you do what I did: download the installer from NVidia's 
site. Don't use the one that comes with your distro, as it's most 
likely several months out of date, anyway. When you run the 
installer, it will make absolutely certain that all of the files it 
needs are in the correct locations, unlike an RPM, which won't always 
replace things that are present but of an incorrect version.
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."