Jouni.Lohikoski@iki.fi wrote:

First of al, NVidia driver is open-source. You can run a package with


No it is not. "Open-source" is something else but "partly open source".
If Nvidia driver really would be open source, RivaTV driver developers
wouldn't have problems to get Video-IN working with nvidia binary
driver. Now there is, and Video-IN does not work in Nvidia cards with
nvidia drivers. Please avoid buying Nvidia cards.

I think there is no need to be so aggresive against rather good hardware supplier. Many their
cards are good enough to buy. I own FX5200 clone and have no problem with xv, however,
xvidix DO have problems, it is very slow with that particular board.

--extract-only


or -x. Please notice the files in usr/lib/. If you have source code for
those files, I am sure very many people would be thankful if you would
share them.

Part of the driver (which uses nvidia hardware) is in .so files, and those 
are binary only.

Yes, you are right, I did not noticed it is a main part, not supplemental.

If problem persists after downloading -7174 version of a driver,
post xvinfo output here.


I have had the problem with v7174 driver. When I have it next time, I'll
try to debug more.

Try to get xvinfo output BEFORE failure and AFTER. I suspect some memory leak in driver code,
try to open large movie, maybe it will lead to failure faster?

Philipp

// jouni