[ubuntu-mythtv] Upgrade problem going to 10.10 with X
Jason
jason at wkrp.com
Thu Oct 14 12:24:16 BST 2010
OK but a twist of fate I had some time this morning and I had success!
Here is what I did
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install xorg
sudo apt-get install mythbuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-173 # if there is a better
one to use please let me know, I found a page that said to do this version.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf # may not be needed
sudo ldconfig # may not
be needed
sudo update-initramfs -u # may not be needed
sudo nvidia-xconfig
rebooted and no luck. However it got me closer.
dmesg started reporting errors like:
vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase
size.
I had to add to my grub file: vmalloc=192M
For me I have the older grub so I had to edit the menu.list (it worked
but I probably could have done it in /etc/default/grub):
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
root=UUID=acc81edd-f305-425c-a551-26448846d223 ro quiet splash
*vmalloc=192M*
Just add that part to the end. I could increase the memory. Honestly I
just was caring about getting it to work and don't remember how much is
on that card.
These two posts talked about it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1468673.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1125400&page=32
Thank you all for you help.
Jason
On 10/14/2010 5:37 AM, Jason wrote:
>
> Thank you all for the suggestions. I'm going through them as I can.
> I'll follow up once I get through them.
>
> My frontend is fine and it's NVIDIA. It was a re-install from the
> MythBuntu install disk (10.10) and not and update.
>
>
> On 10/13/2010 6:29 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> Keep in mind that "nv" is not supported in 10.10. You would want to
>> use "nouveau" if you were going to try to use the open source driver
>> instead.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 17:27, Oblong Cheese <oblongcheese at gmail.com
>> <mailto:oblongcheese at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I first suggest trying available configuration commands, "apropos
>> nvidia" will show what commands you have available, there should
>> be a config tool. If that config tool fails, I suggest completely
>> uninstalling (purge) all NVIDIA related packages and reinstalling
>> them.
>>
>> I would then suggest trying the nv driver to test the
>> functionality of the card, but better yet I would say to try it
>> in another machine with NVIDIA drivers.
>>
>>
>>
>
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