[mythtv-users] Mythtv 31 on a Zotac Ion

[Greg Davis]

>> However, old Nvidia GPUs now have the problem that Nvidia is no longer
>> supporting the drivers for them.  When means that there may not be any
>> packaged drivers that will work, and even if you compile older drivers
>> yourself, you will need patches to make them work with the newer
>> kernels.  This is all a great shame, as the hardware is still fine for
>> the job, and until you need 4k you should be able to keep on usi
>> your old Nvidia hardware.
> 
> Drivers in the 340 series are still being updated by NVIDIA (the 340.108 
> driver (December 2019) patched the driver to fix a kernel change in 
> 5.x??) here:
> 
> https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/
> 
> Latest updates on July 9, 2020.
> 
> Which includes really really good instructions on installation on Fedora 
> 30 through 32.
> 
> The drivers are available directly from:
> https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
> And search for GeForce 9 on Linux64.
> 
> Geoff

Hopefully this first ever reply is formatted correctly....

Just thought I’d chime in about running mythtv 0.31 front end only on xubuntu 20.04

I upgraded my in early on with 8gb of ram, but it still runs fine. It still runs well enough for a bedroom machine.

Greg
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