[mythtv-users] Any Debian / Mythtv / Nvidia users here?

Mark fairlane at springcom.com
Tue Feb 22 23:51:49 UTC 2011


On 2/22/2011 6:30 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
>
> Do NOT install the nvidia drivers from the nvidia website.  There are
> nvidia drivers in the Debian repositories, but they are in non-free, not
> main.  You don't need anything from experimential.
>
> Make sure your sources.list looks something like:
>
> deb     http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
>
> Then just:
>
> # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx
>
> and that will install the nvidia driver, version 195.36.31, which is
> perfectly fine for MythTV.  The newer 260 version isn't needed.
>
> It works fine for me.  Hope this helps!
>
> -- Kevin
Do the 260 drivers off nvidia site have issues on debian?  I'm 
wondering, because I'm seeing tearing and audio issues with the 260 and 
270 drivers on an ION frontend.


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