[mythtv-users] Ion not recognized, no VDPAU

[ryan patterson]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Kevin
Bailey<ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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 a zodiac ION board and run ubuntu also.  I also remember seeing
warning messages in the X.org log file saying the nvidia driver
"Failed to determine GPU name".  But mythfrontend did NOT give me any
errors about VDPAU playback not working.  So I think the warning in
the X.org log doesn't prevent VDPAU from working.

But I never did get smooth playback on my ION board.  I got tons of
"prebuffering pause" errors and also "video is 15.456 frames behind
audio, dropping frames to catch up" errors.  I'm waiting for an
updated 190 series driver from nvidia that actually works.  Then I
will try getting the ION board working again.

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Ryan Patterson