[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:39 PM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>> If you see the nVidia logo when X starts, you are using the
>> proprietary drivers.  Congrats on getting over that hurdle!
>
> Thanks. Problem is, I'm still a bit confused about this and am hoping to get some clarification.
> I thought that proprietary drivers would and could only be available on nvidia's site for example.
> I've been told that using yum would not get me those drivers but the open source drivers.
> So, the link that I was given are from rpmfusion. Does this mean that the proprietary drivers are maintained by nvidia but made available by them to the repo?
>

The proprietary drivers come from nvidia's website.  You are free to
follow their instructions to install them.  Someone from rpmfusion (ot
atrpms, etc...) was nice enough to package them for your distribution,
and hence easily installable with "yum", "rpm", whatever your
package-manager of choice is today.  They are the official drivers
just repacked into a redhat friendly rpm and hosted in a repo.

I am a bit peeved that redhat still does not have a post installation
method to make them available to every kernel on the system (hence the
lost day(s) of the prior attempt since noone seemed to ask if your
kernel was PAE - and I would not have known the fedora package manager
would not build for every installed kernel anyhow))..  I just figured
you had a neighbor dancing on their roof with some chicken feet tied
together with a leather string or something watching you through the
window  :)

-Greg