[mythtv-users] [OT] Ugrading Mythbuntu 12.04 -> 14.04 "broke" my server hardware.

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 October 2014 11:14, John Haywood <john at jhit.com.au> wrote:

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> On 9 Oct 2014, at 11:56 am, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
> wrote:
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> On 9 October 2014 10:48, John Haywood <john at jhit.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 8 Oct 2014, at 4:52 pm, Kingsley Turner <krt at krt.com.au> wrote:
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>> >
>> > After a word of pain after the upgrade, I backed up, and re-installed
>> from a mythbuntu 14.01.1 live disk.
>> > However I encountered the same problems I had after the in-place
>> upgrade, notably: video corruption and lockups.
>> > At the time I figured it was a nvidia driver version mismatch caused by
>> some incorrect bits left over after years of upgrading.
>> >
>> > Not so it seems.
>> >
>> > I saw the same problems, and lack of stability with the nouveau driver,
>> the latest mythbuntu-packaged nvidia driver, and the nvidia driver download
>> from nvidia.com.
>> >
>> >
>> I found on my box 14.0.4 problematic as well (nViIDIA 9400 integrated
>> graphics, with similar lockups preceded by video corruption. Installing
>> with nomodeset as a boot param seems to help, but there were other issues
>> which made me decide to leave my mostly running 12.0.4 as is (mostly = LIRC
>> issues with a DVICO Fusion remote, lodged as a bug with ubuntu since 11.0.x)
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> John
>>
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> Hi John,
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> Would you mind sharing your DVICO LIRC config, I could not get this
> working in either 12.0.4 or 14.0.4
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> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
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>
> My backend is in a box just at the moment, as I've just moved house, so
> give me a couple of days and I'll post
>
>
> Thanks John,

That would be awesome.

Anthony
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