[mythtv-users] nVidia drivers 185.18.14 now out, ubuntu mythtv packages update ...

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/5/29 Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com>:
>
> Is there any way to only use the nvidia drivers from your 'testing'
> repo while using the stable mythtv from your 'release' repo? I have
> things set up with apt pinning. Then I forced the install of the
> nvidia-glx-185, but this breaks the mythtv packages saying that they
> depend on nvidia-glx-180. I would rather not switch my mythtv over to

Actually, the mythtv packages do not depend on nvidia-glx-185 but on
nvidia-libvdpau-180

The problem is that you can't use version 180 of the vdpau library
with the 185 drivers, it gives an error during playback. libvdpau must
match the version of the drivers.
So if you are to install libvdpau-185, it will replace libvdpau-180
which is used by your current mythtv packages.

There are no differences with the mythtv packages found in testing
compare to those in release, except that they are link to libvdpau-185
during compilation.
So it makes little sense to me while you would want 185.xx drivers
which are in pre-release state, but not get the mythtv compiled
against them.

Jean-Yves