[mythtv-users] Stuck at low res using cx18 based capture card AND nvidia binary? Read this:

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM,  <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>    > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:37:50 -0700
>    > From: Larry J on his Dell LT <larry at foxgulch.com>
>
>    > http://foxgulch.com/WordPress/?p=529
>
> You mention in your blog post that you don't know how to make your
> vmalloc change stick across Ubuntu kernel updates; you might want
> to take a look at the top of the grub.cfg file you're modifying
> for its comments about how it gets regenerated.  In particular,
> you might want to add something to one of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
> entries in /etc/default/grub, or put something in /etc/grub.d/40_custom.
> Either way, remember to rerun update-grub and/or grub-mkconfig
> as mentioned in the comments in those files.

This has been documented for quite a while on the MythTV wiki article
for the HVR-1600:

http://mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600#Workaround_for_NVIDIA_restricted_driver_users

Is there an acronym "RTFW"?  ;-)

Devin

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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
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