[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 16.04 ISO testing

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Peter,

Monday, April 18, 2016, 8:52:58 PM, you wrote:

> On 04/18/2016 02:08 PM, Mike Bibbings       wrote:

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> 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?  

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> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
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> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:42 PM,             Mike Bibbings
> <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>             wrote:
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> On 18/04/16 17:26, Thomas Mashos wrote:
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> Hello,
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>                          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/ )    

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> We're getting reports that the nVidia                          
> driver isn't installing during the OS install,                      
> and need to gather some logs as to why.  

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> Some instructions for how to do the install                         and gather the logs
>   
>   Boot live                                 disk 
>     At menu                                 select to try mythbuntu
> without                                 installing 
>     Right                                 click desktop and open terminal 
>     Run                                 'ubiquity -d' 
>     Install as                                 normal, notes: 
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>   make                                   sure to pick nvidia driver
> Enter a                                   password you don't care
> about being                                   public (it will be in debug logs) 
>   


> After                                 install finishes, reboot and
> see if it's                                 using the proprietary nvidia driver. 
> If it's                                 not, please file a bug like
> this:                                 #ubuntu-bug ubiquity That will
> collect                                 all the installation logs. 
> Please                                 share the bug number (we'll
> need to                                 re-assign it to the proper package).

> Thanks,

> Thomas


Once I finished downloading I can try with a non legacy GT610. I have
a spare partition on a not much used intel Pentium Dual. I can compare
with the present Geforce 7200.


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