[mythtv-users] Problem updating video driver to 185.18.31

[Harry Devine]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> 2009/8/19 Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net>:
>   
>> If I run "apt-cache search nvidia", I get a LOT of packages.  How do I know
>> what to uninstall and not do major damage?  An example of some of the
>> packages listed:
>>
>> nvidia-173-modaliases
>> nvidia-180-modaliases
>> nvidia-71-modaliases
>> nvidia-96-modaliases
>> nvidia-common
>> nvidia-settings
>> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
>> nvidia-glx-173
>> nvidia-glx-180
>>     
>
> None of them will break you system if removed...
> Leave the xserver-xorg-video-nvidia, that's part of xorg and is the
> opensource nv driver.
>
> just for the ease of things, I would remove them all ; the most
> important being nvidia-glx-xxx and nvidia-source-xxx
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>   
OK, I was able to do what you suggested and got 180.60 installed.  Do 
you have any idea why doing that would cause my LIRC to stop working?  I 
don't see any errors in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog, and when I 
try to start the daemon, nothing happens.  When I do "lsmod |grep lirc", 
no kernel modules are loaded.

Any ideas?
Harry