[mythtv-users] Rolling back Nvidia driver -- there has to be a better way

[Allen Edwards]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Allen Edwards
> <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In my ignorance I updated my nvidia driver attempting to answer a
> question
> > for this group.  Immediately any TV show went black.  I was told that I
> > needed to set Option "NvAGP"  "0"   because the new driver killed AGP.  I
> > did that but now I get a ton of buffer errors and want to go back to the
> old
> > driver.
> > I noticed the other FE system I have, which has almost identical hw, uses
> > 169.12.  Googled and was sent to the nvidia site but that driver was not
> > there. I downloaded 169.07 and tried to run the script.  ERROR, cannot
> run
> > script in X server.  Pkilled X but just got the X login.  selected a
> > terminal there but got same error.  Googled and was instructed to hit ESC
> at
> > boot up and enter Recovery mode.  Ran script and was told by the script
> to
> > enter mode 3, which took me back to my Xwindows..  Grrrrr.  Back again
> and
> > found a recovery mode where the script ran but it said that this driver
> > was incomputable with my kernel and did I want it to recompile.  Noooo.
> > There has to be a better way.......
> > HELP!!!!
> >
>
> Which distro are you running?
>
Mythbuntu
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