<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> I think what he's getting at is that no one supplies binary drivers for<br>> Gentoo, for obvious reasons. <br><br>you don't need binary drivers made for gentoo. There are ebuilds in gentoo that take an rpm made for fedora or redhat and can install the package from it easily.<br><br>> If you want good video performance with<br>> Gentoo you're probably going to have to pick a card that has a driver<br>> with source code available, and that's not anything made by Nvidia.<br><br>that's lame because almost everyone who uses a card from Nvidia and runs gentoo, ends up running binary drivers from nvidia. I use a card from nvidia under gentoo and get the best performance that the card can get.<br><br>-devsk<br><br><div
style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us><br>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:24:59 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo 64bit and MythTV completely compatible?<br><br><div>Brad Fuller wrote:<br>> Mark Lehrer wrote:<br>> <br>>>> Is anyone successfully running gentoo 64bit from the gentoo<br>>>> repositories? That's including nvidia's driver. I tried 64bit a<br>>>> while ago on FC2 (I think it was) and it just didn't work very<br>>>> well. I'd like to try again but this time using gentoo.<br>>>> <br>>>> <br>>> Gentoo is not really compatible with anything. Choose a better distro,<br>>> like Ubuntu or Fedora.<br>>>
<br>>> <br>><br>> That's a quite a statement without any material to substantiate your case.<br>> <br><br>I think what he's getting at is that no one supplies binary drivers for<br>Gentoo, for obvious reasons. If you want good video performance with<br>Gentoo you're probably going to have to pick a card that has a driver<br>with source code available, and that's not anything made by Nvidia.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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