[mythtv-users] ld: cannot find -lXvMCNVIDIA

[Alex Butcher]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Wendel, Ryan wrote:

> Thanks, I ended up using the following configure command:
>
> ./configure --compile-type=release --cpu=i686 --tune=i686 --enable-mmx --prefix=/usr/local --libdir-name=lib --enable-xvmc --enable-xvmc-vld --enable-xvmc-pro --enable-xvmc-opengl --enable-opengl-vsync --enable-opengl-video --enable-libfftw3
>
> I'm curious, what benefits do you derive from using Axel Thimm's drivers?

Compared with using the unpackaged nVidia drivers, having them in the
rpm package database which in turn makes upgrades and reversions fairly easy
to handle.

Compared with Livna's packaging of the nVidia drivers; they seemed to fit in
better with how the rest of the system expected things when I last tried
Livna's packages.

The only downside is that sometimes when a new kernel is released, it's a
little while before Axel has time to build a corresponding driver package.

> -Ryan

HTH,
Alex.