Re: nvidia drivers

On 25/05/13 22:46, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 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] 
> <mailto:[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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Hello Paulo,

The Long Lived Drivers are now up to 319.23 , maybe they have fixed the 
bug ?

Best Regards

Milorad