[mythtv-users] Installing mythbuntu with myth 22 using latest nvidia drivers

[Brent Bolin]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I think this could be a little misleading.
>> > I use Mythbuntu 9.10 and do not use Jean-Yves repos, and I am able to
>> > change to the newer Nvidia binary drivers without having to 'reinstall
>> > mythtv'.
>>
>> The standard mythbuntu mythtv packages are compiled against
>> nvidia-185-libvdpau. So when you switch to 190 you switched to
>> nvidia-190-libvdpau, and therefore you have to reinstall myth to a
>> version that was compiled against that file. You don't have to reset
>> stuff up. Aptitude should just pull in the packages for you. But if
>> there is some issue then you are left to figure out if it is the new
>> driver or because you reinstalled mythtv. It is just cleaner to have
>> the mythtv packages separated from the vdpau drivers. You can update
>> drivers that are the same version (ie 190.xx to 190.yy) without
>> reinstalling myth. But you can't switch between major drivers with the
>> standard packages without reinstalling mythtv.
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>
> After everything was said and done -
>
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa
>
> Software sources
> Updates
> Check off "Pre-released updates (karmic-proposed)"
>
> So here are my final installed nvidia packages -
>
> dpkg -l|grep nvidia
> ii  nvidia-173-modaliases                173.14.20-0ubuntu5
>         Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive
> ii  nvidia-185-libvdpau
>  190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     Transitional package for
> nvidia-190-libvdpau
> ii  nvidia-185-modaliases
>  190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     Transitional package for
> nvidia-190-modalias
> ii  nvidia-190-kernel-source
> 190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     NVIDIA binary kernel module
> source
> ii  nvidia-190-libvdpau
>  190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     Video Decode and Presentation
> API for Unix
> ii  nvidia-190-modaliases
>  190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary
> X.Org drive
> ii  nvidia-96-modaliases                 96.43.13-0ubuntu6
>          Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive
> ii  nvidia-common                        0.2.15.1
>         Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
> ii  nvidia-glx-185
> 190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     Transitional package for
> nvidia-glx-190
> ii  nvidia-glx-190
> 190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
> ii  nvidia-glx-190-dev
> 190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa4     NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
> development files
> rc  nvidia-settings                      180.25-0ubuntu1
>          Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
> ii  nvidia-settings-190
>  190.42-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa1     Tool of configuring the NVIDIA
> graphics driv
>
> Make sure you install "nvidia-settings-190"
>
>
> When running nvidia-settings GUI there is now a slid bar for the mighty
> "overscan" option
>
> However when adjusting it(only a single slid bar) I really don't see it
> doing anything with the screen.  Didn't spend much time
> on it tonight will investigate again tomorrow.  Also reading through the
> documentation it looks like any changes made need to
> be saved to
>
> FILES
>        ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
>
> And read back in on a reboot or log off/log on
>
>
Also I'm using DVI input
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