[mythtv-users] VDPAU on CentOS 5 - Anybody?

[Ian Forde]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 00:54 -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:34 +0200, Friedrich Clausen wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Jacob Steenhagen <jacob at steenhagen.us> wrote:
> > > OK, so in my continuing saga, I have my 9500 GT card installed and did a
> > > fresh install of CentOS 5.3 with the beta nvidia drivers and the trunk
> > > MythTV packages both from atrpms-bleeding. I can get SD playback using
> > > one of the prebuilt playback profiles (don't remember which one... I've
> > > tried so much stuff) but anytime I try to enable VDPAU I get nothing but
> > > errors... but not very helpful ones. The screen just sits there with
> > 
> > Are you using the stock CentOS kernel? I would try and compile a
> > vanilla 2.6.29.4 kernel using the CentOS .config (of course some
> > things won't match but you will get the important modules, etc). Then
> > rebuild the nvidia drivers once booted off the new kernel and see how
> > you go. I find I get best results (certainly with Lirc) when using the
> > latest, stable Kernel.org kernels. For the rest of the system
> > excluding nvidia and Lirc I use the distro packages.
> 
> Nothing personal, but in the 6 years I've been on this list, that just
> may well be some of the *worst* advice I've ever seen.  Let me get this
> straight - the OP is using CentOS 5.3 - a distro that uses packages,
> atrpms-bleeding RPM *packages*, and you're advising to switch to the
> Linux kernel?  That would break more than it fixes.

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