R5.5 installed the 96.43.05 driver and everything works EXCEPT OpenGL on my machine (haven't tested xvmc either). If I set my painter to OpenGL and restart mythfrontend, I get a black screen. I've been using the Qt painter fine, but I'd prefer to use OpenGL.
My board has an integrated GF4 and I know even back in R5F27, in order to get the OpenGL stuff to work properly, I had to get the old driver from R5F1
this wiki page. My R5.5 box works in ever other respect, and I'm hesitant to try these steps on it without some guidance from folks who know.
Can I follow the same steps to get that driver off the R5F1 iso for R5.5 or will it not work due to differences in the kernel, other stuff that's over my head?
Failing that, there is an IA32 driver on the
nvidia website that has the same version number (1.0-8776) that I ran successfully under R5F1. If I got it, would it just install correctly (using the # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run) or would that too have problems and roach my system?
Here are the steps from that wiki page from my own notes installing R5F27:
Code:
Copy the iso to /myth/tmp
# cd /myth/tmp
# mkdir theCD
# mkdir theCloopImage
# modprobe cloop
# mount /myth/tmp/KnoppMythR5F1.iso ./theCD -t iso9660 -o loop,ro
# mount ./theCD/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ./theCloopImage -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop0
# ls theCloopImage/
bin dev home knoppmyth lib mnt proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz
boot etc initrd knoppmyth-sata media opt root srv tmp var
# tar -cf - -C theCloopImage/usr/src/debs/ nvidia | tar -xvf -
nvidia/
nvidia/common/
nvidia/common/nvidia-kernel-common_20051028+1_all.deb
nvidia/latest/
nvidia/latest/install.sh
nvidia/latest/nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.8776-1_i386.deb
nvidia/latest/nvidia-glx_1.0.8776-1_i386.deb
nvidia/latest/nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-chw-13_1.0.8776-1+2.6.18-chw-13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
nvidia/legacy/
nvidia/legacy/install-legacy.sh
nvidia/legacy/nvidia-glx-legacy-dev_1.0.7184-2_i386.deb
nvidia/legacy/nvidia-glx-legacy_1.0.7184-2_i386.deb
nvidia/legacy/nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-chw-13_1.0.7184-2+2.6.18-chw-13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
# ls -l nvidia/
total 12
drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Nov 18 2006 common
drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Nov 19 2006 latest
drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Nov 19 2006 legacy
# init 1
# pkill xinit
# cd /myth/tmp/nvidia/latest/
# dpkg -i --force-conflicts --force-overwrite *.deb
You should get the following errors:
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-glx_1.0.8776-1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-dev
Then run:
# dpkg -P nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-chw-13
# dpkg -P nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx
# dpkg -i --force-conflicts --force-overwrite *.deb