[mythtv-users] Video card update fail

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 10:53:20 UTC 2018


On 08/10/18 04:02, Allen Edwards wrote:

> 
> Second point.  The 390 driver was not an option on the proprietary 
> driver menu. Perhaps it will work if I install it manually but last go 
> around (with the 304 driver and the old card), that did not work. What 
> is the best way upgrade from 304 to 390? Is there a way to get it to 
> show up as an option in the GUI proprietary driver screen?
> 
> Allen
> 

I replied to your initial post , giving a reddit link that doesn't now 
work for me.  It was an indirect link to the ubuntu graphics driver ppa, 
which offers many nvidia drivers for installation, with the usual ppa 
caveats..

Synaptic on my kubuntu 16.04 laptop offers nvidia-304, nvidia-340 and
384.130-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, which I would expect to be the most 
appropriate of those for your new card.  I have a feeling that only the 
most recently installed nvidia driver is likely to work properly

In Fedora I have an nvidia 396.54 ? server GUI which works well for 
video configuration but doesn't have write permission to /etc, so the 
config file has to be written elsewhere and then copied.  I've recently 
posted with details of my two-screen setup.

And my kde system-settings enables me to define nvidia-HDMI and line 
output jointly as a single default audio device.   Setting this as the 
MythTV audio device works, although warnings do sometimes flash up about 
spontaneous changes of audio device;  perhaps when  a system bell is 
intended.  Maybe a result of a bad-parity EDID string?

John P


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