[mythtv-users] Any Debian / Mythtv / Nvidia users here?

[stuart]

On 02/22/2011 05:30 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
> On 2/20/2011 12:53 PM, stuart wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> I've done a bad thing.  I updated my Debian Mythtv boxes with out
>> checking if there were any Nvidia drivers available.  Now both mythtv
>> boxes are broke.
>>
>> I'm not sure where the hold up is (maybe someone can say), but from
>> mining the internet it appears this problem started about the 11th of
>> February (2011) and is centred around not having proprietary Nvidia
>> drivers available (yet).
>>
>> So, I'm asking here what people running Debian Mythtv boxes do.  (Other
>> then avoid updates like the plague.)
>>
>> It's been suggested to wait until new Nvidia drivers float into the
>> repositories (hum, been days w/o any TV in the house), try the
>> experimental Debian repositories or load up the *real* Nvidia Linux Drivers.
>>
>> Well, that is what I used to do.  Load up the *real* Nvidia Linux
>> drivers. Every time my Fedora box got a new kernel I just recompiled my
>> already downloaded Nvidia drivers and off I went.  Simple as that.  But
>> then I moved to Debian for more stability (ha, I mean humm).  Now, I
>> understand, I am not suppose to install the *real* Nvidia drivers
>> because Debian's package manager will have a fit (maybe I should say
>> there is the possibility of the Debian packaging manager not working for
>> future packaged Nvidia drivers).
>>
>> So, I'm just asking, what do people here usually do in such a case.
>>
>> -thanks
>
> Do NOT install the nvidia drivers from the nvidia website.  There are
> nvidia drivers in the Debian repositories, but they are in non-free, not
> main.  You don't need anything from experimential.
>
> Make sure your sources.list looks something like:
>
> deb     http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
>
> Then just:
>
> # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx
>
> and that will install the nvidia driver, version 195.36.31, which is
> perfectly fine for MythTV.  The newer 260 version isn't needed.
>
> It works fine for me.  Hope this helps!
>
> -- Kevin
>

Thanks everyone for following up on this thread.  Instead of answering 
everyone I'll just say this for now...

I've spent about an hour a day for the past half dozen trying to fix 
this problem.  Looking around the web I think it has been a serious 
Debian / Unstable / Nvidia problem since the 11th of February (2011).

This is probably an over simplification (at worst a 
miss-representation), but I think the dependencies are not working out 
right:

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  nvidia-glx : Depends: xorg-video-abi-8.0 but it is not installable or
>                        xorg-video-abi-6.0 but it is not installable or
>                        xserver-xorg-core (< 2:1.7.7) but 2:1.9.4-3 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages

I have tried Debian / Experimental as well as some private copies of a 
Debian / Nvidia build.  So far I have not found anything that will work.

I will be sure to post a fully dated follow-up should I come across a 
solution or if the Debian / Unstable repositories start working again.

-thanks