[mythtv-users] Should I stress about nVIDIA motherboard drivers?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote:
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>  On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 01:35 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>  > >  I checked the nvidia site, and right now there is no specific Linux driver set for the nFORCE 630a / Gforce 7050 motherboard. Is this something I should be waiting with baited breath for? Or should I be looking to fine-tune what I've got?
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>  > In most cases you do not need any motheboard drivers with linux
>  > because they are already in the kernel.
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>  Uhhh... WHAT?  NVidia driver - if you want the performance, please refer
>  to
>  http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/169.12/README/appendix-a.html
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>  You'll see the 630a / GForce 7050 referred to as a supported chipset for
>  the 169.12 driver... current kernel nv driver, as pretty much anyone
>  who's been on this list for a while knows, isn't anywhere near ready for
>  use for myth when using HD...
>
Sorry. The words "motherboard driver" got me talking about something
completely different. In the windows world there are motherboard
drivers (that add specific support for the northbridge and
southbridge) also graphics drivers.  I know you need the nVidia binary
graphics driver from nvidia.

John