[mythtv-users] Problem w/ nVidia drivers 177.80???
Harry Devine
lifter89 at comcast.net
Sun Nov 16 03:05:02 UTC 2008
steve wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
>
>> Allen Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> I have had terrible problems with nVidia settings. My computer
>>> wouldn't even boot because of a conflict between the drivers and an
>>> Air2PC card. Just today after updating my setup, it would only boot
>>> in low resolution mode. In all cases here is the solution that worked
>>> for me.
>>>
>>> 1) Turn off the nvidia proprietary driver in mythsetup. It has been
>>> so long since I did this but I think there is a check box somewhere.
>>> It may be out of there if you have the standard driver selected. If
>>> you can't figure this step out, go to the next step. It may do this
>>> for you.
>>> 2) Run Envyng and install the nvidia drivers. This is real easy to
>>> use and has never given me any problem.
>>>
>>> Now, you will need a xorg.conf file if you don't have one. I set mine
>>> up manually but I have an S-Video and a DVI projector and needed to
>>> specify resolutions manually.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Allen
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>>>
>> I looked through all of the screens, in both mythtv-setup as well as the
>> Utilities/Setup in the frontend, and I don't see a check box anywhere.
>> As for the Envyng suggestion, I have no idea what that is. I try to run
>> both "envyng" and "Envyng" and it says "command not found". I'm sure
>> I'm misunderstanding your suggestion there, so if you could clarify,
>> that would be great.
>>
>> Thanks for the help!
>> Harry
>>
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> Theres nothing in mythtv-setup about nvidia drivers. you should be
> going to system>admin>hardware drivers and uncheck from there. I dont
> see where you say what version your using but if your using intrepid and
> a legacy nvidia card, no driver is going to work. they are broken as
> intrepid is using a new xorg.
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I didn't think so. I actually did that unchecking from Hardware Drivers
already. I was using 8.10 earlier today, but went back to 8.04.1.
Apparently the nVidia drivers don't work too well there either, based on
the info I gave earlier in this thread. But I appreciate the help and
clarfication.
Thanks,
Harry
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