[mythtvnz] Total fail after update

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:48 +1300, James Booth wrote:
>> Yesterday I rebooted my combined master backed/frontend machine
>> (Mythbuntu with JYA's repositories) after a kernel update and had a
>> total fail with X. While the logon manager will come up, when I log on
>> I simply cannot get an X session, I can't even get it to run in
>> failsafe low graphics mode. I have a GT220 card, driver is 260.19.06,
>> kernel is now at 2.6.35-25.
>>
>> Every time I try to logon I get this in dmesg:
>>
>> mtrr: no MTRR for cf000000,e00000 found
>>
>> I have also been seeing this:
>>
>>
>> NVRM: os_raise_smp_barrier(), invalid context
>>
>> From various forums I see this appears to be an on-going issue with
>> nVidia drivers and the GT220/240/etc cards. I've tried booting with
>> earlier kernels with no success. Has anyone else ssen this? Anyone got
>> a suggestion for a fix?
>>
>> Cheers.
>
>
> I don't know if this is a solution, but there's no reason not to
> download the latest nvidia drivers directly from
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

except that you might not want to step outside your distros packaging system...