[mythtv-users] Is NVIDIA worth the bother?

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Andy Wettstein <ajw1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you use the packaged versions of the nvidia driver from debian, you
>> can use module-assistant to build the kernel package.  Usually this gets
>> the job done (as root):  m-a a-i nvidia
>>
>> You can add the -l option to specify to build for a different version of
>> the kernel.
>>
>> You may need to run 'm-a prepare' first.
>
> Yes, of course.  It's not all that hard.  It's not like you need to
> write the driver yourself or anything, it's just one of those extra
> things you need to do (and need to remember how to do).  If you
> upgrade your kernel every six months or so you probably need to go
> back and re-read the instructions to jog your memory and and see what
> little tweak has been introduced into the preferred build procedure
> since the last time you did it.  It's just a bit annoying.
>
> With open source drivers it's just not an issue.
>
> Eric

This is one thing I like about Gentoo...just doing "emerge
nvidia-drivers" after a kernel upgrade is all you need.

But I agree with you in general about nVidia.  It's always amazed me
that we all seem to be stuck with nVidia for something like MythTV
that doesn't require 3D acceleration or any such thing.  I'm not using
XvMC or VDPAU or anything...it's always seemed to me that there should
be another option by now.

Tom