Re: nvidia drivers

Paulo Cavalcanti <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.atrpms.general
Message-ID <CAMgUmnksyPQg_7KVOCxysLm6Xf9XtCm-0Wgs8b9wPp0HwaZ1TQ@mail.gmail.com>
vdpau is crashing in nvidia 319.17 drivers when playing most divx
compressed avi's.

I am using vo=gl with mplayer to bypass this problem. I do not remember of
seeing
this happen with previous nvidia drivers, thought. My card is a GT 640,
that is,
a relatively new card.

We have to wait for a fix by nvidia in future drivers, I guess ...




On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Axel Thimm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> while this may be relevant for the runtime configuration, these bits
> and configs are not needed (or even installed) during build time.
>
> The bits that are needed for the build are just the libs, not the
> extensions.
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:28:41AM +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
> > This might be relevant to the new Myth builds, although I don't have
> > vdpau-capable hardware.
> >
> > 304.51 worked; 304.64 didn't, so I just reverted.  Later I tried
> > 304.64 from rpmfusion, and had the same problem, apparent on trying
> > to use OpenGL, but couldn't then revert.  This fixed it:
> >
> > >>The packages as installed load modules from X.org instead of those from
> > >>nVidia.  The driver seems ok after editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf like
> this:
> > >>
> > >>Section "Files"
> > >>#    ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
> > >>          ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg"
> > >>#    ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"
> > >>    ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> > >>    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
> > >>EndSection
> > >>
> > >>as suggested here:
> > >>
> > >>http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286084
> > >
> > 304.88, with the same xorg.conf, works for me.
> >
> > Hope - without a lot of confidence - that that helps :-)
> >
> > John P
> >
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