[mythtv-users] Is NVIDIA worth the bother?

[Dale Pontius]

Tom Dexter wrote:
> 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.
> 
You're doing it the hard way.  After a kernel upgrade just run
"module-rebuild rebuild", and it takes care of everything needed,
nvidia-drivers, lirc, openafs-kernel, etc.  Incidentally,
"sys-kernel/module-rebuild".

Dale