Hi,<br><br>I just did a clean install of mythbuntu 11.04 and VDPAU is conmpletely broken. Some info:<br><br>mitchell@mythfe:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br># nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig<br>
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder75)  Thu Apr 14 09:22:52 PDT 2011<br><br>Section &quot;ServerLayout&quot;<br>    Identifier     &quot;Layout0&quot;<br>    Screen      0  &quot;Screen0&quot;<br>    InputDevice    &quot;Keyboard0&quot; &quot;CoreKeyboard&quot;<br>
    InputDevice    &quot;Mouse0&quot; &quot;CorePointer&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Files&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;<br>    # generated from default<br>    Identifier     &quot;Mouse0&quot;<br>
    Driver         &quot;mouse&quot;<br>    Option         &quot;Protocol&quot; &quot;auto&quot;<br>    Option         &quot;Device&quot; &quot;/dev/psaux&quot;<br>    Option         &quot;Emulate3Buttons&quot; &quot;no&quot;<br>
    Option         &quot;ZAxisMapping&quot; &quot;4 5&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;<br>    # generated from default<br>    Identifier     &quot;Keyboard0&quot;<br>    Driver         &quot;kbd&quot;<br>
EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Monitor&quot;<br>    Identifier     &quot;Monitor0&quot;<br>    VendorName     &quot;Unknown&quot;<br>    ModelName      &quot;Unknown&quot;<br>    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0<br>    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0<br>
    Option         &quot;DPMS&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Device&quot;<br>    Identifier     &quot;Device0&quot;<br>    Driver         &quot;nvidia&quot;<br>    VendorName     &quot;NVIDIA Corporation&quot;<br>
EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Screen&quot;<br>    Identifier     &quot;Screen0&quot;<br>    Device         &quot;Device0&quot;<br>    Monitor        &quot;Monitor0&quot;<br>    DefaultDepth    24<br>    SubSection     &quot;Display&quot;<br>
        Depth       24<br>    EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Extensions&quot;<br>    Option         &quot;Composite&quot; &quot;Disable&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>mitchell@mythfe:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version <br>
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  270.41.06  Mon Apr 18 14:54:25 PDT 2011<br>GCC version:  gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) <br><br>mitchell@mythfe:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0/<br>information  registry     <br>
mitchell@mythfe:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0/information <br>Model:           GeForce 8400 GS<br>IRQ:             18<br>Video BIOS:      62.98.12.00.00<br>Card Type:       PCI-E<br>DMA Size:        40 bits<br>DMA Mask:        0xffffffffff<br>
Bus Location:    0000:02.00.0<br>mitchell@mythfe:~$ <br><br>Also, when i reinstalled the NVIDIA driver i get:<br>mitchell@mythfe:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current<br>[sudo] password for mitchell: <br>Sorry, try again.<br>
[sudo] password for mitchell: <br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree       <br>Reading state information... Done<br>The following extra packages will be installed:<br>  nvidia-settings<br>The following NEW packages will be installed:<br>
  nvidia-current nvidia-settings<br>0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 0 B/29.4 MB of archives.<br>After this operation, 85.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.<br>Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y<br>
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-current.<br>(Reading database ... 99642 files and directories currently installed.)<br>Unpacking nvidia-current (from .../nvidia-current_270.41.06-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...<br>Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.<br>
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from .../nvidia-settings_270.29-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...<br>Processing triggers for man-db ...<br>Setting up nvidia-current (270.41.06-0ubuntu1) ...<br>update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.<br>
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 (of link group gl_conf) doesn&#39;t exist.<br>update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/libvdpau_nvidia.so because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so (of link group gl_conf) doesn&#39;t exist.<br>
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)<br>Loading new nvidia-current-270.41.06 DKMS files...<br>Building only for 2.6.38-8-generic<br>Building for architecture i686<br>Building initial module for 2.6.38-8-generic<br>
Done.<br><br>nvidia-current.ko:<br>Running module version sanity check.<br> - Original module<br>   - No original module exists within this kernel<br> - Installation<br>   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/updates/dkms/<br>
<br>depmod........<br><br>DKMS: install Completed.<br>Setting up nvidia-settings (270.29-0ubuntu1) ...<br>Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...<br>update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic<br><br>
<br>When playing video it does play but not using VDPAU, really slow and no audio:<br>2011-05-25 21:45:38.225 Using Full Screen Window<br>2011-05-25 21:45:38.460 Using the OpenGL painter<br>2011-05-25 21:45:39.126 OpenGL: OpenGL vendor  : NVIDIA Corporation<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:39.126 OpenGL: OpenGL renderer: GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2<br>2011-05-25 21:45:39.127 OpenGL: OpenGL version : 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06<br>2011-05-25 21:45:39.127 OpenGL: Max texture size: 8192 x 8192<br>2011-05-25 21:45:39.127 OpenGL: Max texture units: 4<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:39.127 OpenGL: Direct rendering: Yes<br>2011-05-25 21:45:39.128 OpenGL: Initialised MythRenderOpenGL<br>2011-05-25 21:45:40.136 New DB connection, total: 2<br>2011-05-25 21:45:40.137 New DB connection, total: 3<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:40.143 Connected to database &#39;mythconverg&#39; at host: 192.168.0.254<br>2011-05-25 21:45:40.146 Connected to database &#39;mythconverg&#39; at host: 192.168.0.254<br>2011-05-25 21:45:40.173 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1264<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:41.389 ThemeInfo, Warning: Unable to open themeinfo.xml for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD/themei<br>nfo.xml<br>2011-05-25 21:45:41.389 ThemeInfo, Error: The theme (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml fi<br>
le.<br>2011-05-25 21:45:41.401 ThemeInfo, Warning: Unable to open themeinfo.xml for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/themeinfo.xml<br>2011-05-25 21:45:41.402 ThemeInfo, Error: The theme (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:46.196 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.<br>2011-05-25 21:45:46.548 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty device path.<br>2011-05-25 21:45:46.549 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty device path.<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:46.557 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty device path.<br>2011-05-25 21:45:46.558 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)<br>2011-05-25 21:45:46.568 Loading en_us translation for module mythgallery<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:46.661 Current MythMusic Schema Version (MusicDBSchemaVer): 1017<br>2011-05-25 21:45:47.100 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, mp3,mp2,ogg,oga,flac,wma,wav,ac3,oma,omg,atp,ra,dts,aac,m4a,aa3,tta,<br>mka,aiff,swa,wv)<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:47.541 Loading en_us translation for module mythmusic<br>2011-05-25 21:45:47.794 Current MythVideo Schema Version (mythvideo.DBSchemaVer): 1038<br>2011-05-25 21:45:48.121 Loading en_us translation for module mythvideo<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:48.166 Loading en_us translation for module mythweather<br>2011-05-25 21:45:49.510 Found mainmenu.xml for theme &#39;Mythbuntu&#39;<br>2011-05-25 21:45:51.521 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.0.254:6543">192.168.0.254:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)<br>
2011-05-25 21:45:51.944 Using protocol version 63<br>2011-05-25 21:46:29.470 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.233 AFD: Opened codec 0x9989140, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:31.244 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.247 AFD: Opened codec 0xac7eb90, id(AC3) type(Audio)<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.323 AO: Opening audio device &#39;NULL&#39; ch 2(6) sr 48000 sf signed 16 bit reenc 0<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:31.324 Opening NULL audio device.<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.326 AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.555 Clearing OpenGL painter cache.<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.728 VDPAU: Created 2 output surfaces.<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:31.728 VDPAU: Version 1<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.728 VDPAU: Information NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  270.41.06  Mon Apr 18 15:14:35 PDT 2011<br>2011-05-25 21:46:31.728 VDPAU: Created VDPAU render device 1280x720<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:32.827 Player(0): Forcing decode extra audio option on (Video method requires it).<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.070 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.082 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:33.094 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.096 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.106 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.110 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:33.121 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.133 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.141 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.152 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:33.156 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.182 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.186 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.189 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:33.202 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.216 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.226 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.243 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:33.254 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.529 Player(0): Video timing method: USleep with busy wait<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.533 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
2011-05-25 21:46:33.886 VDPAU: Added 2 output surfaces (total 4, max 4)<br>2011-05-25 21:46:33.920 AO, ERROR: Error occurred while downmixing<br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>Mitchell<br>