[mythtv-users] Video quality on 0.28 worse than it was on 0.21

[Allen Edwards]

I did use the Additional Drivers tab and "installed" 304. That is how I got
to where I am and it didn't work. The additional drivers tab says that 304
is installed but it isn't.  That is why I was going to use purge and the
autoinstall thinking that with the 6200 card it would install the 304
driver as per the documentation.  I did autoinstall at first with the 8600
card and got the 340 driver and that was a disaster with the mis reading of
the video card capability and the tiny fonts. Then I did the 304 install
manually but it obviously isn't working.

Allen



On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:08:34 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >I have "installed" the nvidia_304 driver and that is what is reported by
> >the GUI as being installed.  The problem is that it isn't actually
> >installed as reported by the system.
> >
> >My plan which has to wait until this evening is to do this:
> >
> >sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
> >sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
>
> I am not sure using any of the several graphics driver PPAs is a good
> idea.  The PPA drivers are less stable than the ones in the main
> repository.
>
> >sudo apt-get update
> >sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
>
> No, the autoinstall option frequently chooses the 340 driver when it
> should choose the 304 driver for older cards.  It is better to use the
> GUI to manually select the correct 304 driver.  In Mythbuntu 16.04,
> the GUI is found by running "Applications" > "System" > "Software
> Updater", letting it download the updated package lists, then clicking
> on "Settings", then on the "Additional Drivers" tab.
>
> >That should install the 304 driver with my 6200 card.
> >
> >If that doesn't work I will reinstall from scratch 16.04 with auto update
> >turned off so I capture the moment in time when the Mythbuntu team thought
> >they had something stable.
>
> MythTV+fixes from the MythTV PPA is pretty stable.  It has fixes for
> bugs discovered after the packages in the main repository were
> created.  It is normally recommended to use the fixes PPA.
>
> >If that doesn't work I will install 8.04 as I know that works.  I prefer
> >not to do that as I won't have a browser that works with such an old OS.
> >So, might buy all new hardware and start from that.  Or perhaps get a
> TiVo.
> >
> >Allen
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