[mythtv-users] [OT] Ugrading Mythbuntu 12.04 -> 14.04 "broke" my server hardware.

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 October 2014 10:48, John Haywood <john at jhit.com.au> wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2014, at 4:52 pm, Kingsley Turner <krt at krt.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> > After a word of pain after the upgrade, I backed up, and re-installed
> from a mythbuntu 14.01.1 live disk.
> > However I encountered the same problems I had after the in-place
> upgrade, notably: video corruption and lockups.
> > At the time I figured it was a nvidia driver version mismatch caused by
> some incorrect bits left over after years of upgrading.
> >
> > Not so it seems.
> >
> > I saw the same problems, and lack of stability with the nouveau driver,
> the latest mythbuntu-packaged nvidia driver, and the nvidia driver download
> from nvidia.com.
> >
> >
> I found on my box 14.0.4 problematic as well (nViIDIA 9400 integrated
> graphics, with similar lockups preceded by video corruption. Installing
> with nomodeset as a boot param seems to help, but there were other issues
> which made me decide to leave my mostly running 12.0.4 as is (mostly = LIRC
> issues with a DVICO Fusion remote, lodged as a bug with ubuntu since 11.0.x)
>
> cheers
>
> John
>

Hi John,

Would you mind sharing your DVICO LIRC config, I could not get this working
in either 12.0.4 or 14.0.4

Cheers,

Anthony
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