[ubuntu-mythtv] Upgrade problem going to 10.10 with X

Andrew Barbaccia andrew.barbaccia at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 20:17:38 BST 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Scott Black <scootna at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am fairly new to this, but I have a mythbuntu machine that I put together
> from an old hp machine with an nvidia card.  My experience was that the
> proprietary drivers for nvidia are unstable.  When I upgraded to Mythbuntu
> 10.4 six months ago, I had a similar problem.  I found that if I disabled
> the nvidia drivers the problem with X not starting could be fixed.  You can
> do this by editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changing "nvidia" to "nv"
>
> xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         DefaultDepth    24
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load    "glx"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Default Device"
>         Driver  "nv"
>         Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
> EndSection
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Scott Black
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Jason <jason at wkrp.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 10/12/2010 12:15 AM, Andrew Barbaccia wrote:
>> >
>> > Also, to fix the misconfiguraiton, run
>> >
>> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>>
>> I tried that.  Just returns to the prompt - nothing X activates across
>> all the consoles (checked those just in case).  I guess I could try
>> sending it's output to my frontends X session but that just seems weird.
>>
>> I removed xserver-xorg / mythbuntu-desktop and reinstalled no luck.
>> When I do an xinit I get this.
>>
>> [ 11073.950] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>> [ 11073.950] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
>> [ 11073.950] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
>> [ 11073.950] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
>> [ 11073.950] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "0"
>> [ 11073.950] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080 +0+0;
>> 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
>> [ 11073.951] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
>> [ 11073.951] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and
>> Composite X extensions is
>> [ 11073.951] (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
>> [ 11073.977] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics
>> device PCI:1:0:0.
>> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check your system's kernel log
>> for additional error
>> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common
>> Problems in the
>> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
>> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics
>> device!
>> [ 11073.978] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>> [ 11073.978] (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
>> [ 11073.978] (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
>> [ 11073.978] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>>
>> In my Xorg.0.log still.
>>
>> Looks like nvidia is having troubles...  dmesg doesn't show any errors
>> or /var/log/messages
>>
>> Any suggestions?  I'm going to start digging into it after work...
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Jason
>>
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Scott,

Just a note: by using the open source nv drivers you will not be able to use
VDPAU acceleration or any of the nvidia decoders.

-Andrew
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