<div dir="ltr">Yes, you need to disable nouveau so that the nvidia driver can load at boot time.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2018 at 15:17, glen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenb@glenb.us" target="_blank">glenb@glenb.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#2c2c2c" link="#0080ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 21:54 -0700, Allen Edwards wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I don't think the nvidia drivers are getting loaded and I can't figure out how to get them used. I uninstalled them and installed them using the Other Drivers section and still I get this:<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>allen@MythNew:~$ lsmod | grep video</b><br></div><div><b>video 40960 1 nouveau</b><br></div><div><div><b>allen@MythNew:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia</b></div><div><b>allen@MythNew:~$</b></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><div>allen@MythNew:~$ lsmod | grep NVIDIA</div><div>allen@MythNew:~$</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(36,39,41);text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></span></div><div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(36,39,41);text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I know the board is recognized </span></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><b>allen@MythNew:~$ lspci | egrep -i nvidia</b></span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><b>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] (rev a1)</b></span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Google is good at showing me others who had this problem but not at a solution that I can use. Most suggest using commands that I don't have.</span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Anyone?</span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#242729" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Allen</span></font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Allen Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I made the change to xorg.conf and it made no difference.<div><br></div><div>Also, what's with this? </div><div><div><b>sudo: nvidia-xconfig: command not found</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Might be part of the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, everything is the same between the 8.04 disk and the 16.04 disk except the nvidia support software doesn't run and the driver is much newer (304 vs 180).</div><div><br></div><div>When I run nvidia-settings from a terminal on the computer I get this:</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>$nvidia-settings</b></div><div><b>ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system</b></div><div><br></div><div>Alen</div></div><div class="m_3363484243027228283HOEnZb"><div class="m_3363484243027228283h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Peter Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
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On 08/23/2018 12:33 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:<br>
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Using the same settings on the new 16.04 install I have bad tearing when the boards pan on Jeopardy where I did not on 8.04. As far as I can tell, everything is the same. I still have the 8.04 HD, which has serious issues but will play so I am able to compare the silky smooth performance of 0.21 to the jerky performance of 0.28<br>
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With Nvidia it helps to turn off composite to prevent tearing.<br>
sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite<br>
or else add this to your xorg.conf.<br>
Section "Extensions"<br>
Option "Composite" "Disable"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Note that turning off composite prevents Ubuntu unity desktop from working. I use xubuntu to avoid that problem.<span><br>
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Most things are the same as described below. The differences are that I am aware of are that the new driver is 304 (which I confirmed is in use with additional-drivers) and the 8.04 system used 180.<br>
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The other difference is that on the 16.04 system the nvidia-settings icon does not launch anything. It is just like clicking on air. I Googled this and found several people with the same problem and nobody with an answer. Maybe the problems are related<br>
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The hardware is a M3A with AMI 5400, Geforce 6200 LE video card.<br>
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I put the same xorg.conf file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf<br>
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I created the same custom playback profile<br>
If rez > 0 0 -> ffmpeg & XVideo<br>
xv-blit softblend<br>
Bob(2x) Linear blend<br>
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For general picture quality you would do better to use VDPAU slim playback profile if possible, or failing that, use OpenGL Slim.<span><br>
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I have dual displays only one has myth. Here is its xorg.conf section from the 2008 file I transferred over to the new disk. I rebooted after loading the xorg.conf file<br>
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Section "Screen"<br>
Identifier "Screen1"<br>
Device "Videocard1"<br>
Monitor "MythMonitor"<br>
Option "TwinView" "0"<br>
Option "metamodes" "DFP: 1280x720_60 +0+0"<br>
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"<br>
# this next line will be ignored with the TV and the default, auto will be used<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Depth 24<br>
EndSubSection<br>
Defaultdepth 24<br>
EndSection<br>
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This list has been tremendously helpful on my other problems so I am hopeful I don't have to go back to 8.04 although at this point I can make a case for doing that.<br>
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Allen<br>
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