[mythtv-users] Ubuntu VDPAU Repo crashing on screen configure

[Dave Johansen]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/4/9 Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>:
>> I'm running Mythbuntu 9.04 x64 with your VDPAU packages and I want to
>> do everything I can to fix the problems because Mythbuntu 8.10 doesn't
>> support the hardware I have, so is there anything I can do to help
>> debug the issues and try to find solutions?
>
> Are you using the nvidia drivers ?

I'm using the NVidia drivers.

> I only see the crash when I'm using the standard ubuntu OpenGL library
> ; it doesn't crash if the nvidia drivers are installed (they replace
> those opengl libraries)
>
> To identify if you have the same problem I saw, install the 20313
> packages I've put in jaunty testing ; they are build with debugging
> on.
> (you will have to downgrade from 20320 if you updated yesterday)

I think that I switched to the testing repository (changed "release"
to "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/avenard.list), but an update
didn't do anything. So what do I do to get it to install the testing
packages?

> BTW: what is the hardware you have that isn't supported by 8.10 ?
> if it's sound or DVB-T cards , I've made packages for 8.10 that are
> even more recent than what ships with 9.04.. No reason for not getting
> 8.10 to support your hardware.

I have a DViCO FusionHDTV7 Dual Express and an MSI K9N2GM-FIH (GeForce
8200 with HDMI audio output) and I was actually able to get them both
working in Mythbuntu 8.10 by compiling my own drivers and updating
ALSA, but if they work out of the box in 9.04, then why hassle with
it? (well, if I can get 9.04 to be in a workable state).


Also, on a semi-related note, it appears that there is some sort of
database issue with Jaunty right now, and I've submitted this bug
report ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/356789 ), but it
doesn't seem to have gotten much attention.

Dave