[mythtv-users] New Nvidia Drivers.. MCP78 Geforce8200 joy

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On Saturday, June 26, 2010, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 26 June 2010 11:26, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi JYA,
>>>
>>> I accidentally tried to update to 265.35 whilst your testing
>>> repository was enabled. Now my nvidia drivers are broken, and purging
>>> all nvidia* packages and reinstalling nvidia-glx-195 hasn't helped.
>>>
>>> Any help?
>>
>> Simply de-installing 256.35 is just what was required. The testing
>> drivers wouldn't uninstall the 195 drivers automatically and the tls
>> libraries weren't installed properly.
>>
>> Just install the new 256 package and it will be fine
>
> So far I've:
>
> - installed 256, noted it wasn't working
> - removed 256, installed 195. No joy.
> - Removed 195, installed 256. Still no joy.
>
> What am I missing?
>

A "it's not working" has never been a good description on how to ask for help!

You would have X logs, with a description on what's not loading.
Installing 195 or 256 back is all the would normally be required.