hi,
sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but since avenard.org doesn't have a forum nor contact info for the author, I was hoping I can get my installation problem resolved by asking the question here.
I previously had envy-ng installed for my nvidia card. In order to installed the latest nvidia driver using avenard's ppa, I've:
1) un-installed nvidia's driver *from* envy-ng,
2) un-installed envy-ng,
3) added avernard's ppd into sources.list according to their web,
4) updated the repository, rebooted, and installed avernard's nvidia driver via: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180
5) I also installed VDPAU's deb packages, now I have:
dpkg -l|grep nvidia
ii nvidia-180-kernel-source 180.37-0ubuntu0 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii nvidia-180-libvdpau 180.37-0ubuntu0 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
ii nvidia-180-libvdpau-dev 180.37-0ubuntu0 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix d
ii nvidia-180-modaliases 180.37-0ubuntu0 Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive
ii nvidia-glx-180 180.37-0ubuntu0 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
ii nvidia-glx-180-dev 180.37-0ubuntu0 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1ubuntu8 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii nvidia-settings 1.0+20080304-0ubuntu1.1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
However, after rebooting, I get black screen. After getting some info from dmesg, it looks like the kernel driver for nvidia was outdated, i.e. from my previous envy-ng installation, and it caused the driver to be not loaded.
Am I missing any files on my installation? Can someone please help me in getting the latest nvidia's driver installed?
thanks,
shagworthy_uk Wrote:Cheers! I used deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/ release/ and they work like a charm.
Pulse is disabled (i believe as i could not get SPDIF to work with pulse), I will try the new SVN tomorrow and report back. I will also try disabling auto refresh rate if that fails.