[mythtv-users] Ion not recognized, no VDPAU

[Dennis Cartier]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Kevin Bailey
<ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org>wrote:

> Happy long weekend, everyone.
>
> I've been trying to get a Zotac Ion board up for quite a while.
> Really could use some help over this last hump.
>
> To shorten the story, I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid pointed at
> JY's archive. When I play videdo, it pauses every couple seconds.
> myth says this:
>
> 2009-09-06 08:33:08.358 VideoOutputXv: Desired video renderer 'vdpau' not
> available.
>                        codec 'MPEG2' makes 'xv-blit,xshm,opengl,xlib,'
> available, using 'xv-blit' instead.
>
> I went looking for what could be different between this set-up
> and my other working VDPAU computers and the most prominent item
> seems to be that the video chip isn't recognized.
>
> lspci:
>
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 087d (rev b1)
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>
> (--) PCI: (0 at 0:3:5) nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor rev 177, Mem @
> 0xfae80000/0
> (--) PCI:*(0 at 3:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x087d) rev 177,
> Mem
> @ 0xfb000000/0, 0xe0000000/0, 0xf8000000/0, I/O @ 0x0000ec00/0, BIOS @
> 0x????????/131072
> ...
> (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to determine GPU name
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Unknown (Unknown) at PCI:3:0:0 (GPU-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.79.65.00.00
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
> ...
> (II) Loading extension NV-GLX
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (II) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
> (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
> (II) Loading extension XINERAMA
>
> I have several packages with "modaliases" in the name installed,
> including version 180.
>
> I've already gone from hardy to intrepid to see if that made it
> recognize the chip, and it takes nearly forever, and even hardy recognizes
> all the other VDPAU-capable video chips in the house so I'm reluctant
> to just try jaunty without some encouragement.
>
> Anyone have a clue what's wrong ?
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I also had some trouble getting my ION recognized. I was using Mythbuntu
based on Jaunty. I ended up using 1.90 which seemed to the issue. I am not
certain if the ION requires 1.90 as I have heard others make comments that
would indicate they got it working with 1.80, but it did not work for me.
YMMV.

Dennis
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