On 30 Sep 2007 01:47:27 -0500, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@vbref.org">mythtv@vbref.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
James Fidell <<a href="mailto:james@fidell.co.uk">james@fidell.co.uk</a>> writes:<br>><br>> No idea what Ubuntu installs by default, I'm afraid. The latest nvidia<br>> drivers are available from their website though and installation is
<br>> really pretty straightforward. You may need to tweak a few options in<br>> xorg.conf to get it to perform the way you want but unless you're trying<br>> to get XvMC working, it's fairly painless.<br>
<br>Major kudos to James here. I went to NVidia's site tonight and<br>grabbed the geforce fx 5200 drivers, killed gdm with sudo<br>/etc/init.d/gdm stop to get to a shell prompt with X dead,<br>apt-get install libc6-dev to get teh headers the nvidia shell script
<br>needed for recompiling some kernel goodies, and it worked fine.<br><br>Of course, I had forgotten Alex's very helpful post to do it a more<br>Ubuntu friendly way while I was down in the basement with the myth<br>
box.<br><br>At any rate, OMFG what a difference these accellerated drivers made.<br>I could not believe it. The "prescaling images" stuff when starting<br>the front end which used to take about 10 seconds or so dropped to
<br>under a second, and the menus are zippy zippy zippy. How did I live<br>without these drivers?<br><br>Thanks James and Alex. Now I've gotta figure out how to undo whatever<br>all nvidia's shell script might've done and revisit it a more upgrade
<br>friendly ubuntu way. But as a reformed masochist^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H<br>gentoo user, I'm used to constantly fixing broken stuff at that level.<br><br>Thanks again -- my god what a difference the accelerated nvidia<br>
drivers made in MythTV usability.</blockquote><div><br>Now turn on OpenGL UI and it's gonna be even better!<br></div><br></div>