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

[Alan Marchiori]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Zach<uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Phil Linttell<phil.linttell at rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
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>
> Phil,
>
> I'll give give 190.x a try.  I changed my cpu scaling to performance
> which cleared things right up.  However I am getting the tearing, so
> maybe the newer drivers will help that.
>
> I'm also curious about your audio over HDMI, which I'll ask about in a
> separate thread.

I use 180.x w/ the 8200igp; without openGL sync I had tearing.
Tunning on opengl sync solved that for me at least.  Oh, and yes you
need to turn up the CPU for anything to work properly.