[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 16.04 ISO testing

Peter Bennett (cats22) cats22 at comcast.net
Mon Apr 18 18:52:58 UTC 2016


On 04/18/2016 02:08 PM, Mike Bibbings wrote:
> On 18/04/16 18:51, Mike Chinander wrote:
>> I think your nVidia card (GeForce 210) is only supported by the
>> legacy driver, not the latest nVidia driver. Does Mythbuntu 16.04
>> have both drivers?
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Mike Bibbings
>> <mike.bibbings at gmail.com <mailto:mike.bibbings at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 18/04/16 17:26, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     Would it be possible to get someone with physical hardware that
>>>     has an nVidia card to test the 16.04 ISO? (can be downloaded
>>>     from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/daily-live/current/ )
>>>
>>>     We're getting reports that the nVidia driver isn't installing
>>>     during the OS install, and need to gather some logs as to why.
>>>
>>>     Some instructions for how to do the install and gather the logs
>>>
>>>      1. Boot live disk 
>>>      2. At menu select to try mythbuntu without installing 
>>>      3. Right click desktop and open terminal 
>>>      4. Run 'ubiquity -d' 
>>>      5. Install as normal, notes: 
>>>          1. make sure to pick nvidia driver 
>>>          2. Enter a password you don't care about being public (it
>>>             will be in debug logs) 
>>>      6. After install finishes, reboot and see if it's using the
>>>         proprietary nvidia driver. 
>>>      7. If it's not, please file a bug like this: #ubuntu-bug
>>>         ubiquity That will collect all the installation logs. 
>>>      8. Please share the bug number (we'll need to re-assign it to
>>>         the proper package).
>>>
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>
>>>     Thomas
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Thomas Mashos
>>>
>>>
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>>     Thomas,
>>
>>     Just tried amd64 install, it gives Nouveau as the driver when I
>>     requested Nvidia.
>>
>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1571781
>>
>>     Mike
>>
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> Further information:
>
> I just installed Nvidia 340.96 driver via Settings>Additional Drivers,
> rebooted  and mythfrontend works correctly using Nvidia driver.   
> Nvidia X-server settings shows GeForce 210
>
> Nvidia 304.131 driver was also available for install but I have not
> tried this.
>
> Mike
>
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This is the same result I had when I originally tested a week ago. I
also have an Nvidia 210.

Peter
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