[mythtv-users] Warning: Do not install nvidia-304.132 package

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:49:50 -0500, you wrote:

>On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 16:30 -0500, Will Dormann wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Just wanted to share the warning that installing the latest
>> nvidia-304.132 drivers on Ubuntu may have unwanted consequences.
>
>+1
>
>> I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system on an ION system.  It's set up to get
>> security updates, plus mythtv updates.  After installing the
>> nvidia-304.132 package, TV playback would peg the CPU at around 200%
>> and
>> it would be super choppy.
>
>+1
>
>> I think that nvidia-304.131 would have also fixed it,
>
>It does.
>
>>  but I couldn't
>> seem to find the specific package name for that (or how to get it,
>> other
>> than searching for and manually downloading the dpkg files).
>
>Yeah, that's what I ended up doing.
>
>I always hate having to dick around with older nvidia driver packages
>on Ubuntu like that but it was the necessary evil.
>
>Boo (and shame) on Ubuntu for having such a broken driver in an LTS
>release like that.
>
>Cheers,
>b.

Its an Nvidia bug, not Ubuntu - there have already been several
threads on the list about it.  If your Nvidia chip is recent enough,
you can change to using the Nvidia 340 drivers which are still fine.
The 304.132 drivers only work properly when run from root.