[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 10.10 upgrade broke VDPAU

[Paul Kendall]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Alexander Petkov <greenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Thats exactly what I get with my 10.04 install with the 260.19 drivers
>>(both of them)
>>on my 512MB 9500GT.
>
>>But if i downgrade (as stated before) then it works perfectly. Note
>>that I was using
>>the 256 drivers without problem until x-swat updated to the 260 and it all
>>turned to custard, hence the downgrade to the 195 driver from the 10.04
>>distro.
>
>>Cheers,
>>Paul
>
> How would one go about downgrading drivers to 195 or 256 in Ubuntu
> 10.10? Prev versions of the nvidia driver in the repos I see are 173
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex

You could download the binary from nvidia and run that. You may have to
remove the ubuntu nvidia-current driver first.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53.run
or
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53-no-compat32.run

Cheers,
Paul