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

[John Haywood]

On 9 Oct 2014, at 11:56 am, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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.
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>> > Not so it seems.
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>> > 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.
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>> 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)
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>> cheers
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>> John
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> Hi John,
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> Would you mind sharing your DVICO LIRC config, I could not get this working in either 12.0.4 or 14.0.4
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> Cheers,
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> Anthony 

My backend is in a box just at the moment, as I've just moved house, so give me a couple of days and I'll post
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