[NCLUG] Ubuntu Video Issues

[Myles Bostwick]

Thanks for the replies, I'll give the driver update a try, though I'm
suspecting compiz is more the problem than the driver. If I restart
compiz while I have the color bars up, everything redraws. I will
attempt to tweak compiz settings in addition to the driver update and
see if that will fix it.

If I do get a fix I'll let you all know.

-Myles

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 08:34:19 pm Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> If I recall correctly, there was some issue with memory usage, it caused
>> problems with video cards with under 512MB, and cleared up with the 190
>> drivers. This was all related to using VDPAU.
>>
>> Of course the reports may not be totally accurate. ...
>
> Yeah, there were no VDPAU memory usage regressions in 185 relative to 180
> that were fixed in 190. In fact, I don't think there were any significant
> memory usage differences between any driver releases, except that in
> 185.19, on IGP systems, it gained the ability to use sysmem for certain
> memory allocations, thus reducing vidmem pressure. That would have made
> 185.* better than earlier releases. (Note: due to our branching model,
> 185.19 came after 185.13 but before 185.18.*. Sigh.).
>
>
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