[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 10.10 upgrade broke VDPAU

[Paul Kendall]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 25 October 2010 22:21, Jon Whitear <jon at whitear.org> wrote:
>>
>> Then I re-ran the Nvidia install script. Still no good. dmesg gives me this and X fails to start.
>>
>> [   34.690212] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 260.19.12, but
>> [   34.690216] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 260.19.06.  Please
>> [   34.690217] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
>> [   34.690218] NVRM: components have the same version.
>
> the message is pretty clear though
>
>>
>> So then I removed and reinstalled nvidia-current again, which at least gets me back to a sans-vdpau working frontend.
>>
>> lsmod shows that the nvidia module is loaded (and the nouveau module isn't.)
>>
>> Any more ideas?
>
> yeah, your video card isn't vdpau capable anymore :)
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I had a similar problem with my nvidia 9500GT when I upgraded to the 260 driver.
I downgraded back to the 195 series and it works again.

The odd thing is that my ION frontends work with either driver!

Cheers,
Paul