[mythtv-users] MythTV - Complete How-TO build on Fedora Core 2

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Thursday 27 May 2004 13:41, Franco wrote:
> >> The Nvidia drivers and FC2 was a clear example. There
> >> was nothing about it at the "official" site:
> >
> > That answer is correct, for the most part. nVidia's driver won't work
> > with the Fedora Core 2 kernel.
>
> That is not entirely correct. In case it is of interest,
> I have to report I had success in getting nVidia's driver working with FC2,
> by following the nVidia instructions in the enclosed readme.txt.
>
> Which means, I recompiled the stock kernel with NO agp support.
> After that, the card works in accelerated mode, provided that
> you place either  Option "NvAGP" "0"  or  Option "NvAGP" "1"
> in your xorg.conf.

I said "that answer is correct, for the most part", because I know it'll work 
if you recompile a kernel. But if you recompiled the kernel, then you're not 
running the Fedora Core 2 kernel. When I say "the Fedora Core 2 kernel", I 
mean the Fedora Core 2 kernel, exactly as configured and shipped by Red Hat, 
installed from their pre-compiled rpms.

> As a side note, it doesn't seem me that solving the nVidia issue
> is so urgent, as Mythtv works the same even if the card is
> not in accelerated mode.  The ivtv driver seems more important to me...

Now THAT is not entirely correct. MythTV takes advantage of the video 
acceleration features in the nvidia driver, so cpu usage is MUCH lower with 
the nvidia driver than the nv driver, because all Xv rendering has to be done 
in software rather than hardware. If your machine is fast enough, you may not 
notice, but there most definitely is a difference. People with slower systems 
will certainly notice.

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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