[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

mike at grounded.net mike at grounded.net
Tue Oct 12 23:07:51 UTC 2010


I rebooted after that and everything is still good. The steps I am wanting to complete are to get the pvr-500 working so that I can get video into vga, then go on to nvidia.
Have to find another doc on installing the pvr-500 if anyone knows of one with a little more detail than the wiki one. 


On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:15:34 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:21 PM, mike at grounded.net wrote:
> 
>>> Okay, so you don't have the nvidia module for the kernel you're
>>> actually running installed. uname -r please?
>>> 
>> It's a fresh install as of last night.
>> 
>> #uname -a
>> 2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:18:39 UTC 2010 i686 i686
>> i386 GNU/Linux
>> 
> And we have a winner. You have kmod-nvidia for the non-PAE kernel
> installed. You need kmod-nvidia for the PAE kernel.
> 
>> Might have to downgrade to non PAE since there seems to be a problem
>> trying to install the nvidia drivers.
>> 
> No, you ask for kmod-nvidia alone, and you get the first thing that
> satisfies the requirement, which is kmod-nvidia for the non-PAE kernel. You
> just have to explicitly state that you want the PAE one (or run the non-PAE
> kernel).




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