<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 10:54 PM, John Nissley <<a href="mailto:jnissley@nissley.org">jnissley@nissley.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From beww at <a href="http://beww.org" target="_blank">beww.org</a> Mon Dec 10 02:02:54 2007<br>From: beww at <a href="http://beww.org" target="_blank">beww.org</a> (Brian Wood)<br>Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:02:54 -0700<br>
Subject: [mythtv-users] Assistance with video card problem (Please point<br> me in the right direction)<br>In-Reply-To: <<a href="mailto:475C9CCE.8020203@nissley.org">475C9CCE.8020203@nissley.org</a>><br>References: <
<a href="mailto:475C9CCE.8020203@nissley.org">475C9CCE.8020203@nissley.org</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:475C9E4E.2070502@beww.org">475C9E4E.2070502@beww.org</a>><br><br>John Nissley wrote:<br> > I know this is not a forum to answer these types of questions but if you
<br> > could point me in the correct direction I would greatly appreciate it.<br> ><br> > I just purchased a MachSpeed VSNV-939 mother board with an athlon socket<br> > 939 x2 64 bit cpu. My plan was to make this my master back end that
<br> > will also serve up video to the main TV in the house. The problem I am<br> > running into is that the PCIE geforce 8500GT video card is not liking<br> > the nvidia drivers. I am able to get the system up and running on
<br> > Fedora 8 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 build and everything works fine until I install<br> > the nvidia drivers.<br> ><br> > I have tried to use the shell script from nvidia and the modle from<br> > livna but no matter what I try the computer locks up when it is time to
<br> > engage the nvidia driver.<br> ><br><br>You probably don't want to hear this, but the easiest and fastest<br>solution would probably be to put a much less powerful graphics card in<br>the unit.<br><br>I've read that there are problems with the 8500 cards and the Linux
<br>drivers, but I didn't pay attention.<br><br>Unless you're gaming on this machine, I'd seriously consider something<br>less power-hungry and more commonly used with Myth systems.<br><br>OK, everyone with a working 8500 setup may now flame me :-)
<br><br>beww<br>______________________________________________________________<br><br>Can I get some assistance on which video card will work for mythtv and<br>motherboards with PCI express slots. It seems that all you can get
<br>anymore are motherboards with PCIe slots and most of the video cards are<br>the gaming type and there appears to be some issues with them and the<br>nvidia driver. I have a 8500GT and even though it says it is supported
<br>the computer always locks up after I load the nvidia driver. I am<br>running the 64 bit version of Fedora but I do not think that has<br>anything to do with it.<br><br>So if you have a PCI express video card that is working for you and it
<br>is still being made please let me know what it is so I can get one that<br>works this time.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>--<br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote><div><br>I've got a 7800 that works in FC5.<br><br> <br></div></div><br>