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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:12:06 -0500, you wrote:

>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

In Ubuntu, the blacklisting is done automatically when the Nvidia
package is installed - the package installs a /etc/modprobe.d file.