[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend + XVMC + AGP?
sonofzev at iinet.net.au
sonofzev at iinet.net.au
Fri Mar 13 03:30:20 UTC 2009
Wow,
I don't use Fedora but that's a really really old driver version.
The current stable version on the nvidia site is 180.29.
Some distros even go into the Beta driver which is 180.37.
I suggest you try and download from nvidia directly.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
On Fri Mar 13 14:11 , Rich West sent:
>I just bit the bullet and upgraded all of my frontends to Fedora 10
>(from Fedora 8), and I have found that I have to finally face the Nvidia
>bug (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php\?t=118738\) with NvAGP
>breaking XvMC. Ugh.
>
>I had been rebuilding the 100.14.11 driver (the last good working
>driver) under Fedora 8 by applying a patch to it. Unfortunately, under
>Fedora 10, I can't get it to compile.
>
>I thought I would fight with the latest driver. It looks like the only
>fix is to set NvAGP to 0, but the side effects of NvAGP disabled seem to
>be reducing the WAF (choppy previews of HD recordings (due to higher CPU
>utilization?), really really high cpu utilization and the resulting
>video drag when skipping forward, backward, or auto commercial skipping).
>
>I know this isn't entirely mythtv related, but I was wondering if anyone
>has had any luck with, possibly, compiling 100.14.11 under Fedora 10
>(kernel 2.6.27.19)?
>
>-Rich
>
>
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