[BDPNA]

I've been using package manager to upgrade regularly but for some reason the latest nvidia drivers (190 or 195) won't install, and it really messed stuff up. So I went back to the 185 drivers but might have messed something up on my own.

Now, when I try and use VDPAU in XBMC, I just see a big blotch of colored pixels in place of the picture, sound is great. Turning rendering to software plays MKV just fine. Anything not using VDPAU basically no longer works.

I could have messed up my xorg.conf but I dunno if VDPAU even cares about this.

Could really use some help if anyone has any ideas...I really don't tweak karmic much, just take the updates, now that it's broken I'm sorta lost.

Using latest XBMC from PPA too.

[BDPNA]

I think this is more likely a conflict using the latest XBMC without the latest Nvidia beta drivers...But here's what is happening when I try and install 195. Could really use some help here...

Unpacking nvidia-195-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-195-kernel-source_195.30-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking nvidia-glx-195 (from .../nvidia-glx-195_195.30-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx-195' clashes with `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx-185'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-195_195.30-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-195_195.30-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[BDPNA]

Okay, got it installed by removing diversions. Now I think I know what happened.

It now says "You do not appear to be using the Nividia X Driver" when I try and access the config. XBMC also will not start. What changed in 190 or 195 that would have caused this to happen? Are they not ready for prime time yet perhaps? Should I not be using 195?

Thanks for any help....If anyone's in the holiday spirit.

[althekiller]

From 185 to 190 the location of libvdpau was changed. Good odds you have some bad symlinks lying around in /usr/lib/ or something. Of course this has nothing to do with your driver issue. I have no idea how you manged to con apt into arsing that up. Might be able to get aways with completely removing everything nvidia then installing back something you know works.

[BDPNA]

Thanks Al. I managed to get the latest drivers on there by manually running the install program and downloading the packages directly. I followed the directions here:

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/...ack+nvidia

I had to do this from a TTY windows and only before I logged into the system at all (from the "Low graphics" error screen at boot). If I logged in first, I couldn't get the X server to stop no matter what I tried.

So I installed 190.53 I believe...However, now my system's not booting up at all. Just a black screen. Not sure what I am going to do next, considering a re-install of Karmic on top of itself and booting from CD to try and repair it.

What bums me out is I did nothing but follow the normal GUI upgrade path before the problems started. So I'm shocked more users didn't have issues like I did.

[BDPNA]

Realize I am getting a little off the path here...But is there a logfile or something I can grep if I boot into the recovery console to try and see what might be going on with the black screen at boot?

[moontan77]

any luck with this?

Having a similar problem now myself and dont want to do a full reinstall as everything else is working ok. Havent went as far as installing the drivers manually yet. I see the picture but its not using vdpau to decode it.

I removed the diversions but dont get vdpau in 185/190 or 195 , dont understand what is wrong with it.


21:54:20 T:3035023232 M:1418694656 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://HOMESERVER/HD Movies/the fast and the furious 2 1080p DTS/Too Fast Too Furious 2003 1080p DTS.mkv
21:54:20 T:3035023232 M:1418694656 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:54:20 T:2832010128 M:1418592256 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1418592256 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415270400 NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415270400 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415163904 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Creating VDPAU(1920x816)
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415163904 NOTICE: (VDPAU) unable to get handle to libvdpau
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415163904 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Failed to get VDPAU device
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415163904 NOTICE: (VDPAU) ~CVDPAU
21:54:21 T:2832010128 M:1415163904 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10


Using camelot 9.11

[butchjr]

I just sudo apt-get install vdpauinfo
and after that everything is working for me again

this is with the 195 driver from nvidia-vdpau ppa.