[mythtv-users] nVidia drivers 185.18.14 now out, ubuntu mythtv packages update ...

William william_munson at comcast.net
Thu May 28 21:13:25 UTC 2009


On 05/28/2009 11:13 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> nVidia just released drivers 185.18.14 . They list them as Release
> Candidate status and pre-release.
>
> They fixed a few issues related to VDPAU.
>
> First with Powermizer. When playing videos with VDPAU, powermizer
> wouldn't increase the speed of the GPU if required.
> With some video cards this could be a problem. I saw a 9800GT which
> would stay at 100MHz when playing a 1080p H264 files, and obviously
> this wasn't fast enough.
> Also, you don't need to disable composite in xorg.conf to prevent
> tearing anymore.
>
> I have created Ubuntu (8.04, 8,10 and 9.04) packages for the 185.18.14
> drivers and made VDPAU-aware applications (mythtv and mplayer) depend
> on the updated VDPAU library.
>
> Those packages are in the "testing" section of my repository.
> Upgrading requires some user intervention, you can't just do an
> automatic upgrade , though it's not that hard either.
>
> I wrote some notes on how to do it...
> http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Entries/2009/5/28_How_to_upgrade_to_nVidia_drivers_185.18.14.html
>
> Let me know how it goes..
>
> Cheers
> Jean-Yves
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>    
While trying to upgrade a jaunty I am unable to find the nvidia-glx-185 
package in either the jaunty or intrepid testing repo. Do I need to 
enable bleeding? I would prefer not to upgrade to that unstable of a 
release.

Tks!


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