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xbmcbubba · 2009-07-13, 20:14

The downloads section for XBMC Live has a file: "restrictedDrivers.NVIDIA.185_18_14"

I have a NForce 4 mobo, and I'm wondering if these are needed, and how you install them? (there is no readme, or any other documentation that I can find...)

Probably going to set it up with a SATA - CF boot "drive", so I assume that the driver is a post-installation task?

Thanks.

Haggy · 2009-07-13, 20:34

That's just the official nvidia Xorg driver - for the GPU. has nothing to do with the southbridge (aka sata controller and stuff).

ulchm · 2009-07-13, 20:35

I could be wrong here but my understanding of the restricted drivers is that it is usually only a video related thing. Since you have an nvidia mother board more then likely you'll have an nvidia video card as well. This driver will help to enable all your 3d support and hd options that your video card may have.

Note: Be sure you backup /etc/xorg.conf before you do it. I personally have had problems before with it and wish I had a backup of that file.

Give it a shot! Hope that helps.

xbmcbubba · 2009-07-14, 14:15

I guess I should have mentioned that the chipset is the Nforce 430/Geforce 6150.

I did find an ISO that was pre-configured with the drivers, and offered a GPU selection on bootup, seemed to work OK.

Regardless, some sort of readme about how to install these drivers with the basic install would be helpful! Wink

Thanks.

**The-Boxhead** · 2009-07-14, 14:19

Quote:Regardless, some sort of readme about how to install these drivers with the basic install would be helpful!

If you had spent 1 minute on this forum or read in the online manual for xbmc
you would find that there is alotta help on this subject.

That post proved you just ranted in here not reading a single post and just
posting your question. Really good forum usage !

xbmcbubba · 2009-07-14, 15:23

Nice waste of bandwidth with an assinine flame attermpt.

If you do a forum search for: "restrictedDrivers.NVIDIA.185_18_14" or just "restrictedDrivers" you get zero results.

That's exactly what I did, so posting was the next logical step.

The driver download package is a ZIP file, so there's absolutely no excuse not to follow universally accepted standards and include -some- sort of readme, with either specific information, or links to find it.

In the words of Bart Simpson, Get a life...

The-Boxhead Wrote:If you had spent 1 minute on this forum or read in the online manual for xbmc
you would find that there is alotta help on this subject.

That post proved you just ranted in here not reading a single post and just
posting your question. Really good forum usage !

**The-Boxhead** · (This post was last modified: 2009-07-14, 15:34 by The-Boxhead.)

Search for "restricted drivers" gives me 62 hits
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/search.php?searchid=3371089

and doing the same search in the online manual gives me:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Building_res..._XBMC_Live

and from the stickies you get:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=53812
and
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu

and by 1 min browsing topics:
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php...ive+driver

Zoolook · 2009-07-14, 16:08

The-Boxhead Wrote:Search for "restricted drivers" gives me 62 hits
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/search.php?searchid=3371089

and doing the same search in the online manual gives me:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Building_res..._XBMC_Live

and from the stickies you get:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=53812
and
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu

and by 1 min browsing topics:
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php...ive+driver

None of those explain what restricted drivers really are, only Haggy's reply did. When I first did my own searches in this forum and the wiki, being a long time Gentoo user, I did not get at the first moment that actually there is nothing restricted about the restricted drivers, it's just the *?)§%&!/#~buntu way, or philosophy of naming official, closed-sourced manufacturer drivers which - ooooh, noooo, taint your kernel. And as it seems, xbmc development and deployment is at some extent *?)§%&!/#~buntu-centric, sometimes one gets the feeling this is really expected to be known. Please do not get me wrong, I do not want to say there is no, or there is poor documentation on xbmc itself, and also, this forum seems to be very helpful (even with slaps on how to make a proper bug report and all that), but this restricted drivers thing puzzled me too, when first reading about them.

Haggy · 2009-07-14, 16:15

Zoolook Wrote:even with slaps on how to make a proper bug report and all that)

Please bear with us. This is simply the fastest way to get your problems solved.

Zoolook · 2009-07-14, 16:22

Haggy Wrote:Please bear with us. This is simply the fastest way to get your problems solved.

I know, and you're perfectly right, it only seemed to me in some of the threads I read, that this is sometimes stressed a bit too much, but I might be wrong as well. Of course I'm bearing with you, I really love this nice piece of software Big Grin

Haggy · 2009-07-14, 16:28

Well. a complete debug logfile is a very valuable piece in solving problems. It tells us what architecture you're on, which version you're running, which hardware you're using, what settings you have, but most of all it often shows clearly where the problem is. Without it most well-intended suggestions are hardly more than rubbing a crystal ball.