[mythtv-users] Gentoo 64bit and MythTV completely compatible?

Cole Brodine cbrodine at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 20:49:57 UTC 2007


> I think what he's getting at is that no one supplies binary drivers for
> Gentoo, for obvious reasons.  If you want good video performance with
> Gentoo you're probably going to have to pick a card that has a driver
> with source code available, and that's not anything made by Nvidia.

I use the Binary Nvidia drivers on my Gentoo box, and they work
wonderfully.  Just because you're compiling the majority of things,
doesn't mean you can't use a few binary programs or drivers where you
want.  (The binary Nvidia drivers even have their own e-builds in
portage!)


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