[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 10.10 upgrade broke VDPAU

Paul Kendall pkendall64 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 01:21:49 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Paul Kendall <pkendall64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Mine has 512MB. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 and tried the 260.19.06
>> drivers, like I said,
>> but they didn't work on the 9500GT, but were fine in the ION systems.
>
>
> ION is a 9600M, correct?  So I'm surprised your 9500GT isn't working,
> but not surprised the ION works.
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