[mythtv-users] Problem w/ nVidia drivers 177.80???

[Harry Devine]

steve wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
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>> OK, I had problems with my on-board ATI Radeon X1200 video and drivers, 
>> so I put an nVidia Geforce 7300 (I think that's what is is) in.  After 
>> finally getting the latest drivers installed, the frontend seemed to 
>> take a long time coming up.  It just hangs out on the "Pre-scaling theme 
>> images" window for a long time.  I let it go about 20 minutes earlier 
>> and it never left there.
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>> So, since my box is still a "work in progress" and I don't have anything 
>> on it that can't be replaced, I figured I'd nuke it and reinstall 
>> Mythbuntu 8.10.  I figured that maybe some weird conflict between the 
>> ATI drivers and the nVidia drivers might be going on.  Well, no luck.  I 
>> reinstalled it and its doing the same thing.  Its been on the 
>> "Pre-scaling theme images" window for about 30 minutes now as I type this.
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>> When I set it up from the CD, I told it to use the 177.80 drivers.  I 
>> couldn't find anything about there being any problems with this set of 
>> drivers.  There was an option to use the 173 series.  Should I try going 
>> into the "Restricted Hardware Drivers" GUI and loading those?
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>> Harry
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> take a look at intrepid release notes, specifically the nvidia driver
> section.  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810
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> intrepid uses a new xorg and legacy drivers dont work with it. as far as
> I know nvidia is either working on a fix, or already has, not sure
> havent been following too close as I use a newer card.  may want to
> search ubuntu-users mailing list. you can find out exactly what card you
> have with the command lspci in a terminal.
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Thanks for the link.  Based on that info, all I had to do was change the 
driver in my xorg.conf from "nvidia" to "nv" and now its much better.

Harry