[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 10.10 upgrade broke VDPAU

[Bill Williamson]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Paul Kendall <pkendall64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 25 October 2010 22:21, Jon Whitear <jon at whitear.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Then I re-ran the Nvidia install script. Still no good. dmesg gives me this and X fails to start.
>>>
>>> [   34.690212] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 260.19.12, but
>>> [   34.690216] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 260.19.06.  Please
>>> [   34.690217] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
>>> [   34.690218] NVRM: components have the same version.
>>
>> the message is pretty clear though
>>
>>>
>>> So then I removed and reinstalled nvidia-current again, which at least gets me back to a sans-vdpau working frontend.
>>>
>>> lsmod shows that the nvidia module is loaded (and the nouveau module isn't.)
>>>
>>> Any more ideas?
>>
>> yeah, your video card isn't vdpau capable anymore :)
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>
> I had a similar problem with my nvidia 9500GT when I upgraded to the 260 driver.
> I downgraded back to the 195 series and it works again.
>
> The odd thing is that my ION frontends work with either driver!


I've got a 9500GT with 1GB ram running 260.19.12 nvidia drivers and it
works perfectly with VDPAU.

How much ram did your 9500GTs have?  I know some had 512mb, maybe they
don't work?