[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Brian Wood wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 02:15:34 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:21 PM, mike at grounded.net wrote:
>>>> Okay, so you don't have the nvidia module for the kernel you're
>>>> actually running installed. uname -r please?
>>> 
>>> It's a fresh install as of last night.
>>> 
>>> #uname -a
>>> 
>>> 2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:18:39 UTC 2010 i686
>>> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> 
>> And we have a winner. You have kmod-nvidia for the non-PAE kernel
>> installed. You need kmod-nvidia for the PAE kernel.
>> 
>>> Might have to downgrade to non PAE since there seems to be a problem
>>> trying to install the nvidia drivers.
>> 
>> No, you ask for kmod-nvidia alone, and you get the first thing that
>> satisfies the requirement, which is kmod-nvidia for the non-PAE kernel.
>> You just have to explicitly state that you want the PAE one (or run the
>> non-PAE kernel).
> 
> Thanks Jarod, finally an explanation for this fellow's troubles that makes sense, from someone who should know.
> 
> I wouldn't think a Myth system would really need more than 4GB of RAM installed, at least I have found no advantage to 
> that much memory.
> 
> Now I guess we will get into the "Does Myth need or benefit from 64-bits?" discussion :-)

Nb: the decision the Fedora installer makes isn't governed by "is there more than 4GB", but rather, "is there memory mapped above the 4GB boundary", which can happen even if the system has less than 4GB due to bios wackiness, pci memory reservation holes, etc., etc.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com