[mythtv-users] Video quality on 0.28 worse than it was on 0.21

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:58 AM Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I executed my "plan"
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
>
> And autoinstall picked the 304 driver but I still see
> sudo apt-get purge nvidia*configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
>
> Still no nevidia-settings that works so tonight I will go with part 2 of
> the plan and start over with 16.04
>
> Allen
>
>
If you do not successfully blacklist nouveau from the initramfs and
post-boot running kernel, then no matter what you do, nvidia.ko will never
work.  I am unsure of how to do that in a debian derivitive, but it must be
done.

-Greg



> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:31:34 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>> >I did use the Additional Drivers tab and "installed" 304. That is how I
>> got
>> >to where I am and it didn't work. The additional drivers tab says that
>> 304
>> >is installed but it isn't.  That is why I was going to use purge and the
>> >autoinstall thinking that with the 6200 card it would install the 304
>> >driver as per the documentation.  I did autoinstall at first with the
>> 8600
>> >card and got the 340 driver and that was a disaster with the mis reading
>> of
>> >the video card capability and the tiny fonts. Then I did the 304 install
>> >manually but it obviously isn't working.
>> >
>> >Allen
>>
>> There is an even more manual install procedure - use "apt install" to
>> select the exact packages to install.  Or use the Synaptic GUI program
>> to get a list of all "nvidia" packages and select them from there.
>>
>
>
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