[mythtv-users] screwed up my 180.41 nv update

Bill Williamson bill at bbqninja.com
Mon Mar 23 09:02:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> 2009/3/23 David Miller <dave at justdave.net>:
> > I do know (from a previous thread and experience) that the nvidia
> > drivers currently in the avenard repo require you to uninstall your
> > existing nvidia drivers first before installing them.  You might try
> > removing all traces of nvidia stuff then installing it again.
>
> This is only true for nvidia drivers <= 180.11 due to a change on how
> libvdpau is being packaged.
>
> The requirement to uninstall the previous nvidia drivers is true for
> any nvidia drivers > 180.11: that includes drivers found in the
> official ubuntu repository (8.10 comes with 8.22) and using the new
> nvidia drivers found in 9.04.
>
> Wanted to emphasise that this issue isn't linked to using my
> repository ; I only repackaged the drivers that will ship with Jaunty
> using exactly the same structure.
>

And to add, likely this is something that the jaunty upgrade tool (actually
running the upgrade tool as opposed to a "change sources; aptitude
dist-upgrade") would handle, which is why it's "broken" doing it the apt
way.
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