[mythtv-users] Video card recommendations?

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Trampas wrote:

> I have a Nvidia in a nforce2 motherboard, I have not been able to  
> get the
> drivers to work. I have tried the on board video and an AGP video card
> neither will work. If someone knows how to get nvidia drivers  
> loaded let me
> know.

What drivers ? Do you mean drivers for the nVidia nForce mobo chipset  
or the nVidia video drivers.

For the nVidia video drivers you would obviously need an nVidia-based  
video card. The on-board video is unlike to be such.

Installation methods for the nVidia video drivers are somewhat  
dependent on the distribution you are running. There are RPMs for RPM- 
based systems, Gentoo has an ebuild for the drivers etc.

The driver module must be built against the kernel that you are  
running. The most basic method is to run the shell script that you  
can download from nVidia. It will try and find a pre-built module but  
if it can't it will compile one for you. You will need the kernel  
sources or at least the headers etc.

If you mean the drivers for the nForce mobo chipset, I have never  
found them to be necessary, at least with nForce-3 or nForce-4  
boards. Linux can handle things just fine. Some vendors like Asus do  
have Linux chipset drivers available for download, not sure what for.