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

[Friedrich Clausen]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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I have been following this thread for a while and, it seems, a common
factor seems to be X using up 100% no matter which drivers are used.
Perhaps you can try the following -

* Perform a BIOS upgrade - who knows, it may help.
* As far as I can see, only Ubuntu based distros have been tried -
perhaps trying Fedora or some other distro would be worthwhile. Just
to see if X can be run in a stable manner and from there working
towards MythTV.

I sympathise with your troubles and I hope we can still get you going
onwards to PVR bliss :-)

Cheers,

Fred.