<div>Worked like a charm, looks like I must have missed something during the downgrade!</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>James<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/26 Johnny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="h5">> Hi,<br>> Up until recently I've been using Jean-Yves' mythtv packages with VDPAU<br>> support, with great results. This was all fine until a couple of days ago<br>> when the mythbuntu-weekly-builds repo (which I didn't realise I still had in<br>
> my sources) was updated with some new builds that have upgraded the VDPAU<br>> packages to a newer build, and removed the VDPAU support. I tried<br>> downgrading the packages back to the avenard versions, but this causes<br>
> mythfrontend to segfault whenever it starts so I seem to be stuck with no<br>> VDPAU support. My question is if there is a way to go back to the avenard<br>> packages without completely rebuilding my myth system. I do have a DB backup<br>
> but it's somewhat out of date :)<br>> Thanks<br>> James<br><br></div></div>You may not have downgraded everything you needed to, (eg you may have<br>some package that was installed automatically that wouldn't be<br>
downgraded automatically when you forced the downgrade of mythtv). It<br>may work if you actually uninstall mythtv, that should remove the<br>packages that were auto-installed. Then reinstall it. Sometimes<br>synaptic is nice for things like this. You can look at all of the<br>
packages installed from a particular source (ie repository). That way<br>you can make sure to remove or downgrade everything from the mythbuntu<br>repositories. Likewise you can force everything from the <a href="http://avenard.org/" target="_blank">avenard.org</a><br>
repos. Make sure to backup your database again. Jean-Yves's packages<br>don't change the database so just back up your current database and<br>restore it after you get the right packages. These new scripts are the<br>
recommended way of doing database backups and restores:<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore</a>.<br><br>Also to avoid this problem in the future you can use apt pinning to<br>
give Jean-Yves's packages higher priority. Then the mythbuntu<br>repository will only be used for anything that isn't in Jean-Yves's<br>repo. You just have to create a file called 'preferences' in<br>/etc/apt/. Here is what is in mine:<br>
<br>Package: *<br>Pin: origin <a href="http://www.avenard.org/" target="_blank">www.avenard.org</a><br>Pin-Priority: 600<br><br>The default priority is 500, so this will put everything at<br><a href="http://avenard.org/" target="_blank">avenard.org</a> at a higher priority. Also when I do an update with<br>
aptitude and it asks for confirmation (ie Yes/No/?), you can type 'v'<br>and it will show the versions that will be installed so you can double<br>check that it is the right packages.<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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