[mythtvnz] MythTV, nVidia drivers 185.18.14...

[Aaron Drysdale]

Hi Jean-Yves,

I have upgraded to 185.18.14 from your test repository, made sure I was up to date with everything from your release repository and removed composite disable from xorg.conf. Rebooted and checked driver was installed in nvidia-settings, then tried live tv. I get tearing.

Added back in composite disable, rebooted and now live tv is fine. I'm not at all woried about this - I never understood what composite disable actually did anyway since everything appears to work fine. But I thought I would just let you and others know. I'm using an EN8500GT Silent 512MB.

Thanks for providing the latest driver.

Regards
Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 30 May 2009 4:06 p.m.
To: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Subject: [mythtvnz] MythTV, nVidia drivers 185.18.14...

Hello

nVidia released drivers 185.18.14 . They list them as Release
Candidate status and pre-release.

They fixed a few issues related to VDPAU.

First with Powermizer. When playing videos with VDPAU, powermizer
wouldn't increase the speed of the GPU if required.
With some video cards this could be a problem. I saw a 9800GT which
would stay at 100MHz when playing a 1080p H264 files, and obviously
this wasn't fast enough.
Also, you don't need to disable composite in xorg.conf to prevent
tearing anymore.

I know some of you are using mythtv packages I've created in the
"testing" ubuntu repository...

Be aware that those packages are now built against libvdpau 185.
Upgrading requires some user intervention, you can't just do an
automatic upgrade , though it's not that hard either.

I wrote some notes on how to do it...
http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Entries/2009/5/28_How_to_upgrade_to_nVidia_drivers_185.18.14.html

If you have manually installed earlier version of the nVidia 185.xx
drivers using nVidia installer, to be safe .. Run the same nvidia
script again with something like:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86XXX.run --uninstall

before running the steps mentioned in the link above.

Cheers
Jean-Yves

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