[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 03:12:01 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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.


Thanks again, you are a wealth of information.

On a related subject, though OT for this list:

http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm

As if we needed another reason to dislike Microsoft.