[NCLUG] Ubuntu Video Issues

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Jan 6 20:34:19 MST 2010


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 04:29:19 pm Myles Bostwick wrote:
>> I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 though I had this problem with Hardy as well.
>> After a varied amount of time, my video memory gets corrupted.
>> ...
>>
>> Some Information:
>> - I'm running the Nvidia Proprietary driver version 185 [Recommended]
>> - Gnome version 2.28.1
>> - Compiz 0.8.4 (if not enabled, the problem seems to go away, though
>> may just take longer to happen)
>> - My video card is an nvidia Quardro FX 550 rev a2
>>
> 
> The 185 drivers are known to be problematic, at least that's what the folks on 
> the MythTV mailing list say, though this may be mainly related to using VDPAU 
> for video decoding.

Hmm. I'm not aware of any particular issues that make 185 worse than any 
other driver series overall, and I would be, given I write part of them.

> There are now 190 series drivers, but I don't think they are yet integrated 
> into the Ubuntu 'Hardware Drivers" system.

The installation using the NVIDIA installer is pretty easy. You should 
give it a go. In addition to 190.*, there's also a 195.* beta recently 
too. I'd say give the latest version available a try.

Get drivers here:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/

Installation instructions here:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.30/README/installdriver.html
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490

If you still have problems, I'd suggest the "nvnews" forums here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

... a number of NVIDIA developers and users give support there.



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