[mythtv-users] Zotac, VDPAU not available

[Kevin Bailey]

I've had this problem on and off for months. Usually just
re-starting myth will fix it. But I recently changed my
xorg.conf to "force" 1920x1080_60 mode (previously it was
automatically picking something like 1360x768.) Now it does it
no matter how many times I re-start myth:

2009-10-04 08:55:52.607 VideoOutputXv: Desired video renderer 'vdpau' not available.
codec 'MPEG2' makes 'xv-blit,xshm,opengl,xlib,' available, using 'xv-blit' instead.

and obviously trying to play HD is jerky.

I enabled a variety of verbose options and this looks the most relevant:

2009-10-04 08:55:50.898 VDPAU: Version 0
2009-10-04 08:55:50.898 VDPAU: Information NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  190.36  Wed Sep 23 08:18:11 PDT 2009
2009-10-04 08:55:50.998 VDPAU Error: Error at util-vdpau.cpp:870 (#23, The system does not have enough resources to complete the requested operation at this time.)
2009-10-04 08:55:50.998 VDPAU Error: Failed to create output surface.
...
2009-10-04 08:55:51.282 AFD: Position map found
2009-10-04 08:55:51.282 AFD: Successfully opened decoder for file: "myth://192.168.10.6:6543/1281_20090915200000.mpg". novideo(0)
2009-10-04 08:55:51.915 VDPAU Error: Error at util-vdpau.cpp:870 (#23, The system does not have enough resources to complete the requested operation at this time.)
2009-10-04 08:55:51.915 VDPAU Error: Failed to create output surface.
...
2009-10-04 08:55:51.964 VideoOutputXv: Pixel dimensions: Screen 1920x1080, window 1920x1080
2009-10-04 08:55:51.967 VideoOutputXv: Estimated display dimensions: 1161x653 mm  Aspect: 1.77795
2009-10-04 08:55:51.967 VideoOutputXv: Estimated window dimensions: 1161x653 mm  Aspect: 1.77795
2009-10-04 08:55:52.598 VDPAU Error: Error at util-vdpau.cpp:870 (#23, The system does not have enough resources to complete the requested operation at this time.)
2009-10-04 08:55:52.598 VDPAU Error: Failed to create output surface.

I'm using Ubuntu intrepid and JYA intrepid release testing, which
gives nvidia-glx-190.36. I don't have any special options in my
xorg.conf. (I tried TripleBuffer once, but it just hung.)

Regarding giving the GPU enough RAM, the machine has 2GB.
I haven't touched anything in the BIOS. There was an option
that was something like GPx window which was 64MB.

Turned off gdm, gnome, etc. Just running fvwm shows 1.5G free.

Anyone have any ideas ?

Thanks