[mythtv-users] New NVidia drivers, 7676.. not much changed.

[Todd Ignasiak]

This is a good illustration of the need for open source drivers..

This has been one of the biggest hurdles in using my AMD64 system. 
All the open source kernel, apps, etc. work great.    The one piece of
closed software, the video driver, becomes an effectively unsolveable
problem.

It's too bad there is not an open source alternative.  I would drop
the Nvidia stuff in a heartbeat.

On 8/24/05, David Ellis <david at ellisonline.ca> wrote:
> Yeah - this little bug has been reported to Nvidia several times.........I
> really wish they'd get around to fixing it.
> 
> Bah,
> 
> David
> 
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Todd Ignasiak
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:07 PM
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] New NVidia drivers, 7676.. not much changed.
> 
> I noticed that Nvidia posted a new driver version, 7676, a week or so ago.
> 
> I downloaded the AMD64 version, hoping to get reliable XvMC operation,
> but it didn't have any noticeable improvements on my system.
> 
> 
> XvMC still fails to initialize.    I didn't bother messing with it any
> more, but I assume it's still the same behavior as 7667, where you
> have to try initializing it 20+ times, then finally you get lucky and
> it works.  After that it works every time.
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