[mythtv-users] Warning: Do not install nvidia-304.132 package

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 16:30 -0500, Will Dormann wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just wanted to share the warning that installing the latest
> nvidia-304.132 drivers on Ubuntu may have unwanted consequences.

+1

> I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system on an ION system.  It's set up to get
> security updates, plus mythtv updates.  After installing the
> nvidia-304.132 package, TV playback would peg the CPU at around 200%
> and
> it would be super choppy.

+1

> I think that nvidia-304.131 would have also fixed it,

It does.

>  but I couldn't
> seem to find the specific package name for that (or how to get it,
> other
> than searching for and manually downloading the dpkg files).

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing.

I always hate having to dick around with older nvidia driver packages
on Ubuntu like that but it was the necessary evil.

Boo (and shame) on Ubuntu for having such a broken driver in an LTS
release like that.

Cheers,
b.
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