[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 10.10 upgrade broke VDPAU

[Greg Oliver]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jon Whitear <jon at whitear.org> wrote:
>>
>> Where you using JYA's avernad repo's? perhaps there's some odd
>> iteraction between JYA's and ubuntu's repos.
>>
>
> No, everyhting I'm running is plain vanilla Mythbuntu.
>
>> Anyway, how I worked around it was to purge the packaged nvidia
>> install
>> and install the nvidia drivers manually
>
> Thanks for the tip - I shall try that. I did install the drivers using Nvidia's installer, but I didn't purge the Ubuntu nvidia-current package before hand - is that likely to make a difference? I guess I'll find out!

You will probably only need to blacklist the nouveau module and set
the nvidia module to automatically load.