Need latest nvidia driver (340.104)

[Colin Law]

On 24 September 2017 at 03:08, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:04:04 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>>According to Nvidia, that is my best chance at resolving the problem
>>>with audio not being sent through the displayport on my HP notebook.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I didn't follow this thread, assuming you shouldn't have done this
>> already, consider to switch to the FLOSS nouveau driver and if you still
>> should experience this issue, to report it upstream, or if it should be
>> already reported, to add a comment to the existing bug report.
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=nouveau
>>
> I tried the nouveau driver again.  It works okay, except that VLC
> doesn't play video of video files, only audio.  The video is black.

In vlc in Preferences > Video try the alternative settings in the
Output dropdown.

Colin