[mythtvnz] Channel change stability issues with MythTV andVDPAU in NZ

[Douglas Pearless]

I went through the downgrade procedure and now a number of recordings 
just have black screens, bother.

I will need to go back to 185.18.14...

Cheers
Douglas
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/6/13 Ross and Jemima Knudsen <ross.jemima at gmail.com>:
>   
>> If I click mark all upgrades in synaptic I get the following:
>> http://my.jetscreenshot.com/412/20090612-vef7-41kb
>>
>> Update Manager keeps offering upgrades but says it can only perform a
>> partial upgrade:
>> http://my.jetscreenshot.com/412/20090612-yvoh-97kb
>>
>> So it looks like synaptic is wanting to update everything including what
>> update manager isn't willing to (libmyth and mplayer) but its trying to
>> revert the vdpau and nvidia driver to version 180!  Looking in Synaptic
>> it wants to convert from version
>> 1:0.21.0+fixes-20674-openglvdpau-0ubuntu0 to
>> 1:0.21.0+fixes-20674-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3 for each of the changes.
>>
>> Here is the list of changes (note click the zoom link on the page to
>> make it legible):
>> http://my.jetscreenshot.com/412/20090612-ls1f-168kb
>>
>> I'd like to stay using v185 of the nvidia driver but if the version of
>> myth in JYAs release repository is not compatible with this driver
>> should I switch to using the testing repository?
>>
>>     
>
> 185.x has been very unstable for me and others ; my machine keeps freezing.
>
> so I put back 180.x in the release directory ; you'll have to follow
> those instructions
> http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Entries/2009/6/10_How_to_downgrade_to_nVidia_drivers_180.xx.html
>
> It's very simple. Same procedure as upgrading from 180.x to 185.x..
>
> If you use testing, you'll find the same packages but build for 185.xx
>
> Jean-Yves
>
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