[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Nicolas Will]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:02 -0500, mike at grounded.net wrote:
> 
> > I know this is not much help, but I had many similar headaches with
> > mythdora (and Fedora in general) and ended up back with Mythbuntu.
> > It's not perfect, but the stupid little things like drivers just
> seem
> 
> I think I'm going to switch if I can't get this working on this
> install. 
> At the moment, things are looking better. Changing out for the PVR-500
> seems to have fixed one problem. 
> The Display problem also has not shown up this time around. I seem to
> have a clean, non nvidia drivers system
> right now. 
> 
> 
> > So I can go from
> > new hardware (I've set up 3 new ION based systems in the last few
> > weeks) to fully working and integrated system in 30minutes more than
> > the amount of time it takes Mythbuntu to install. I can't complain
> 
> One thing I've always noticed with projects like this is that
> sometimes, it's incredibly difficult to get up and running. Sometimes,
> things just don't want to come together and it seems hopeless.
> Sticking to it, all of a sudden, I just know I'll be installing myth
> on all kinds of hardware and it'll just come together. 
> 
> I seem to be fighting some weird hardware combinations or something,
> no idea but I'm not giving up and appreciate the input. 


This whole thread sounds like it's been written 5 to 10 years ago...

The amount of "apparent" problems you are getting, including driver
install, X config, IRQ conflicts (!! come on, we are in PCI-land here!),
power capacity (with a GT200, I don't think so!), etc...

This is modern hardware and modern distros.

Also, try to focus on one problem at a time, not 2,3 or 4. Remove the
tuner, put the motherboard back to defaults with all usb ports, etc...
keep the video card.

Plain Jane install, get video/X working first.

Then move on to the next, probably get the tuner in and make sure it
stays in with the proper driver.

Then move to MythTV's backend and configure it.

Then move to the frontend.

Then to the remote.

Etc...

One step at a time.

If you are familiar with Fedora, stick to Fedora.
If you are familiar with Debian/Ubuntu, stick to Ubuntu/Mythbuntu.
If you are familiar with neither, pick one; my preference would go to
Ubuntu, from what I've read it may be more user-friently with regards to
proprietary drivers and overall toolset around its MythTV packages (but
I am biased, I know Debian/Ubuntu, I don't know Fedora).

In any case, stick to your choice, distros have different ways and
approaches in order to do the same thing; it's better to know one
properly.

Nico