[mythtvnz] MythTV, nVidia drivers 185.18.14...

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

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