[mythtv-users] Problem w/ nVidia drivers 177.80???

[Harry Devine]

James Crow wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 20:59 -0500, Harry Devine wrote:
>   
>>>   
>>>       
>> Nope, no good.  I am SSH'd in right now, and ran "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm 
>> stop", but when I try to run the installer, I get that message saying 
>> "You appear to be running an X Server...".  I can't even get to a login 
>> screen using Ctrl-Alt-F1.  I do get alot of errors in my Xorg.0.log stating:
>>
>> [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
>> [mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
>> [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
>> [mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
>>
>>
>> I had previously used the Restricted Drivers Manager to tell the system 
>> to put on version 173 then changed xorg.conf to use "nvidia" as the 
>> driver rather than "nv".  I thought 177 was hosed so I thought I'd try that.
>>
>> Damn, this is frustrating!  Its this sort of BS that keeps Microsoft at 
>> the top!!!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Harry
>>     
>
> Harry,
>
>   When you try to stop X with /etc/init.d/gdm stop, do you see an error
> on screen? If the X server is locked up then it may not immediately
> stop. I would recommend going back to 8.10, but that is your choice. A
> couple of notes:
>
> 1) EnvyNG is software that downloads and builds the current nvidia
> driver for you. You must install it with Synaptic, apt-get, etc before
> you can use it.
>
> 2) If you want to run the installer that you download from nvidia then
> you must stop X. If you have logged into X and it is locked up then this
> will cause problems. Restart your computer. Before you login (or before
> you run any programs if you use auto login) do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2).
> Login at the console then stop gdm. Run 'ps -ef | grep X' to see if X is
> still running. If it is switch back to it with Alt-F7 (or maybe it is
> F8) and hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill X. With GDM stopped it should not
> start back up.
>
> For a point of reference I am running 8.10 with a GeFroce 7300GS PCI-E
> card and drivers 177.80.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
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I've been trading emails with Allen Edwards off-list about this but 
haven't gotten real far.  I've done the following:

1) reinstalled Mythbuntu 8.04.1 from CD
2) installed envyng-core using "sudo apt-get install envyng-core"
3) installed the nVidia driver using envyng ("sudo envyng -t" and 
picking option 1)

After the PC reboots, the XFCE desktop comes back up, but I have no Myth 
frontend, and the background seems to take a long time to update.  If I 
SSH in from another machine and run "top", I see that Xorg is using 100% 
of the CPU.  I'm not really 100% sure what version of nVidia driver 
that's being used, but I'd like to say its either 169.12 or 173.  I seem 
to remember one of those flying by.

I'm at a total loss here.  I thought that maybe the problem had to do 
with my installing the latest updates using Synaptic, and subsequently 
it putting an updated xorg-server package on that's broken the same as 
it is in 8.10 (from what I've read), but that's not the case.  Its a 
vanilla install except for the envyng step.

Any ideas?  I could still try to manually put 177.82 using your method 
above and see if that works.
Harry