[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 16.04 ISO testing

[Mike Chinander]

I think your nVidia card (GeForce 210) is only supported by the legacy
driver, not the latest nVidia driver. Does Mythbuntu 16.04 have both
drivers?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 18/04/16 17:26, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Would it be possible to get someone with physical hardware that has an
> nVidia card to test the 16.04 ISO? (can be downloaded from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/daily-live/current/ )
>
> We're getting reports that the nVidia driver isn't installing during the
> OS install, and need to gather some logs as to why.
>
> Some instructions for how to do the install and gather the logs
>
>    1. Boot live disk
>    2. At menu select to try mythbuntu without installing
>    3. Right click desktop and open terminal
>    4. Run 'ubiquity -d'
>    5. Install as normal, notes:
>    1. make sure to pick nvidia driver
>       2. Enter a password you don't care about being public (it will be
>       in debug logs)
>    6. After install finishes, reboot and see if it's using the
>    proprietary nvidia driver.
>    7. If it's not, please file a bug like this: #ubuntu-bug ubiquity That
>    will collect all the installation logs.
>    8. Please share the bug number (we'll need to re-assign it to the
>    proper package).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Mashos
>
>
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> Thomas,
>
> Just tried amd64 install, it gives Nouveau as the driver when I requested
> Nvidia.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1571781
>
> Mike
>
>
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