[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 10.10 upgrade broke VDPAU

[Paul Kendall]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Alexander Petkov <greenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How would one go about downgrading drivers to 195 or 256 in Ubuntu
>>> 10.10? Prev versions of the nvidia driver in the repos I see are 173
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Alex
>
>>You could download the binary from nvidia and run that. You may have to
>>remove the ubuntu nvidia-current driver first.
>>
>>ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53.run
>>or
>>ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53-no-compat32.run
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Paul
>
> I meant to change driver release without breaking the package manager.
> Been installing the *.run script from Nvidia ever since they released
> the driver for the first time...
>
> I managed to find 256.52 version .deb packages for Mythbuntu 10.10 here:
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/55135417/nvidia-settings_256.53-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/56414517/nvidia-current_256.53-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/56414519/nvidia-current-modaliases_256.53-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
>
> So far the system hasn't experienced the error I quoted previously.
>
> Alex
>

Awesome, glad to hear it.

Cheers,
Paul