[mythtv-users] nvidia 8200 IGP + VDPAU no luck

[Phil Linttell]

> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:00:12 +1000 From: Jean-Yves Avenard 
> <jyavenard at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia 8200 IGP + 
> VDPAU no luck Hi 2009/7/23 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
>> >  I know that Jean-Yves (who backported vdpau to 0.21-fixes) had trouble
>> >  with 185.x nvidia drivers and recommended going back to 180.x. Mind
>> >  you that was on 0.21-fixes with the backport. Whether that applies to
>> >  trunk, I do not know. Heres the post anyway:
>> >
>> >  http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Entries/2009/6/10_How_to_downgrade_to_nVidia_drivers_180.xx.html
>>      
> This is still the case, should you use trunk or 0.21-fixes, I can
> consistently crash X with 185.18.14 no matter if you use mplayer or
> mythtv
>
> 190.16 has worked okay for me so far ; provided you disable OpenGL
> V-Sync otherwise you get xcb errors which kills mythtv.
>
>    

I didn't have any problems with instability under 185.18.14, and have 
been using it almost two months with MythTV.  However I did experience 
quite a lot of screen tearing with my Asus M3N78-VM (nVidia 8200 IGP) 
combined FE/BE  I tried everything to resolve it (including 180.60, 
which was worse), and had pretty much given up.

However, I installed the nVidia 190.16 beta driver on Tuesday when it 
came out.   It cleared the screen tearing right up, as well as other 
artifacts I was seeing (e.g., sepia ghosting on black/white 
recordings).   This is with 720p recordings from an HD-PVR on a 1080p 
display over HDMI audio+video).  Running current trunk with kubuntu 9.10 
alpha.  (If you're trying to get a new system going under ubuntu 
9.04....  I suggest also moving to 9.10 at this point.  The 190.16 
driver also installs easily with the current 2.6.31-3 kernel.)

I recommend that anyone with an 8200 IGP give the 190.16 driver a try.