<html>Thanks John,<br /><br />On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:19 CET, John Finlay <finlay@moeraki.com> wrote:<blockquote type="cite" cite="076aa0d6-c9c7-70c1-d620-4c6ba72d7294@moeraki.com"><br /><br />On 12/06/2016 11:15 PM, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />> Thanks Hika,<br />><br />> On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 17:43 CET, Hika van den Hoven<br />> <hikavdh@gmail.com> wrote:<br />><br />>> Hoi Marius,<br />>><br />>> Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 10:48:03 AM, you wrote:<br />>><br />>> > Hi,<br />>><br />>> > ARound the time that 16.04 came out I did an upgrade of an older<br />>> > mythbuntu system with a GT610 video adapter and hit problems with<br />>> > the nvidia nv-control module, which wasn't allowing mythtv to match<br />>> > the monitor refresh rate to the frame rate of the content I was<br />>> trying to play.<br />>><br />>> > I tried "everything" at the time, using all the available versions<br />>> > I could easily install using packages, scripted installers and<br />>> > vanilla nvidia installer, all with no success. I eventually gave up<br />>> > and lived with the problem, allowing the available drivers,<br />>> > packages, mythtv code to mature over time before trying again.<br />>><br />>> > I haven't had much time since to play with mythtv, but last night,<br />>> > for the hell of it, after being irritated again with the jumpy<br />>> > video, I decided to downgrade from the version that was installed (I<br />>> > can't remember now whether it was 358, 361 or 364) to 340, which was<br />>> > mentioned in another recent thread regarding a working driver for<br />>> legacy cards.<br />>><br />>> > I rebooted and was surprised and pleased to see that the refresh<br />>> > rates were now being set correctly... Problem solved!<br />>><br />>> > However, as we have now moved on quite a bit since April and as<br />>> > there are newer driver versions available, does anyone know if<br />>> > something changed radically since 340 in the way Nvidia handles<br />>> refresh rates?<br />>><br />>> > Can anyone say which driver version might now be considered optimal<br />>> for the GT610 on a mythTV system?<br />>><br />>> > I'm a bit wary about breaking again whatever fixed itself<br />>> > yesterday, so don't want to just blindly cycle through the driver<br />>> versions.<br />>><br />>> > BR.<br />>><br />>> > --Marius--<br />>> ><br />>><br />>><br />>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html<br />>><br />><br />> Hmm, so the GT 610 isn't there as it's not considered lagacy hardware.<br />> All the same, the driver seems to work far better than the version I<br />> had installed before. At least when it comes to updating refresh rates.<br />><br />> Any other GT610 users out there:Please can you say which nvidia driver<br />> you're using with Myth?<br />><br />> Thanks<br />><br /><br />I have a FE with a GT610 that successfully uses the 367.57 driver in<br />Mythbuntu 16.04.<br /><br />John</blockquote>I'll try re-downloading 367.57 from the repo and seeing if it works. Any specific repo/installation method you use for nvidia drivers? I guess quite a bit of specific GT610 functionality is not covered by the legacy driver that I'm using.<br /><br />BR.<br /><br />--Marius--<br /><br /><br /><br /> </html>