[mythtv-users] Avenard, mythbuntu, nVidia 195 drivers, HDMI audio - lost day

[greg]

mythtv at derdev.com wrote:
> I have a new Zotac ION B-E  for a frontend and I need to get myth 0.22
> running on it with HDMI video+audio to my Sharp LCD.
>
> I lost most of yesterday to trying to fiddle with the Avenard repository
> (thanks for the repo!!)
> over mythbuntu 9.10 (karmic).  Two issues made me nuts.
>
> 1) I cannot seem to get a stable commitment to the nvidia 195 drivers
> (Avenard) over the nvidia 185 drivers (mythbuntu)
>
> 2) I cannot seem to get HDMI audio to actually work.
>
>
> Regarding 1) (drivers) is there a previous post someone knows about that
> cleanly removes 185 and include 195?  I thought I had it, but the
> Proprietary Drivers manager only ever saw the 185 drivers.  I didn't want
> to mess around with compiling or manually moving files since I don't
> really
> understand the underlying driver files.
>
> Regarding 2) (HDMI audio)...  I actually got the impression after a lot of
> googling that there was recently an opinion that HDMI audio (over same
> cable as the HDMI video) is broken in ubuntu 9.10 - irrespective of
> whether
> I can get to the nvidia 195 drivers.  Can someone assure me I'm not
> wasting
> my time?   I would switch distro for this particular install if that's
> needed because this is my only install in the home that will require HDMI
> audio - all the rest will/do use S/PDIF which I am able to get working.
>
> Also re: 2) I was able to create a slave reference in ~.asoundrc and
> "aplay -L" did show the HDMI module on card 0, device 3.  However,
> speaker-test never worked, VLC using alsa never worked.  Absolute silence. 
> (Yes, I un-muted the several channels in alsamixer) :-)
>
>
> TIA.  D.
>
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This always works for me...

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa

sudo apt-key adv |--|keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com |--|recv-keys CEC06767

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nvidia-190-modaliases nvidia-glx-190 nvidia-settings

Using this procedure I get 195.53