<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Sorry I posted my reply with the wrong subject.<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div id="yiv145657739"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><br>I tried 2 different ways to install nvidia. sudo apt-get install nvidia-current (actually I may have done it with synaptic, but either way it was the the ubuntu way. Also I downloaded the nvidia installer with the most current version. That failed the 1st time do to an issue with nouveau installed. I removed everything with nouveau and it seemed to install correctly.<br><br>Both ways got the same error. Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:1:0:0<br><br>ls -al |grep GL<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 10 2010-12-25 22:57 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-12-25 22:57 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.260.19.29<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root
root 758308 2010-12-25 22:57 libGL.so.260.19.29<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-10-14 10:51 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.070900<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452244 2010-09-30 13:01 libGLU.so.1.3.070900<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-12-06 21:00 libQtOpenGL.so.4 -> libQtOpenGL.so.4.7.0<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-12-06 21:00 libQtOpenGL.so.4.7 -> libQtOpenGL.so.4.7.0<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 929560 2010-11-19 10:02 libQtOpenGL.so.4.7.0<br><br><br>Seems like the links are working.<br><br>I am thinking of a <b>EVGA 01G-P3-1302-LR GeForce 8400 GS </b>or <b>EVGA GeForce 9500 GT Video Card or</b> any
other 8400 or 9500 card. $50 seems like an easy fix. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good card for hdmi out for a 42in plasma. I just want it to work.<br><br>Thanks<br>P.J.<br><br><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="yiv145657739plainMail">Message: 5<br>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:18:52 +1000<br>From: Lindsay Mathieson <<a rel="nofollow">lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Santa Brought Daddy a new T.V.<br>To: Discussion about MythTV <<a rel="nofollow">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a rel="nofollow">201012281418.53109.lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15"<br><br>On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:46:46 AM P.J. Trudell wrote:<br>> a quick "nvidia-xconfig" gives me a good xorg.conf file and a roobot should<br>> give me control and the nvidi
driver I installed (ubuntu and via the<br>> latest nvidia drivers). No luck. I end up with a text login prompt after<br>> gdm fails on a reboot. Bellow is the xorg log showing the reason for the<br>> failure:<br><br><br>How did you install the nvidia drivers?<br><br> "sudo apt-get install nvidia-current" ?<br><br><br><br>Message: 9<br>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:34:20 +0000<br>From: agraham <<a rel="nofollow">agraham@g-b.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Santa Brought Daddy a new T.V.<br>To:
Discussion about MythTV <<a rel="nofollow">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Cc: "P.J. Trudell" <<a rel="nofollow">pjtrudell@yahoo.com</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a rel="nofollow">4D19BD2C.70702@g-b.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br><br>Does lspci show the card at 01:00.0, it may not be finding the card.<br><br>best of luck..<br><br>Albert.<br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>