[mythtv-users] Is NVIDIA worth the bother?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you already have a working xorg.conf for that display and you
> intend to continue using the same interface you're currently using,
> upgrading to an NVIDIA card is as easy as plugging it in, downloading
> the binary driver, and running the installer.

And then re-building the driver any time you upgrade the kernel.  And
dealing with the fact that your kernel is officially tainted at that
point.

I've got Nvidia cards in my mythfontends too, but it's not something
I'm particularly happy about.  I bought a motherboard with an Intel
G45 graphics chip on it just so I wouldn't have to deal with all of
the binary driver crap that you need to deal with for nvidia boards.
At the time (over a year ago) the driver wasn't really stable yet and
I had to switch it out for the nvidia system, but not without some
regret.

If there's a card with an open source driver that works and gets the
job done with 70% CPU load and another card with a binary blob driver
that gets the job done with 6% CPU load, I'd go with the open source
one every time.

Eric