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View Poll Results: Which NVIDIA driver do you use, Nouveau or the porprietary blob?
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09-24-2012, 01:52 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid + various in VMs.
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It must only be the beta drivers it was fixed in then -- was fixed as of at least 304.48 if not sooner.
I watched the bug reports, the changes to the GIT repository and the fix from an NVIDIA developer filter through a couple of months ago.
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09-24-2012, 02:02 PM
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#32
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current & "True Multilib."
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 273
I suggest you download the latest NVIDIA driver (I think it's 304.51) as the blue people problem has been cured for a while.
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As of the wee hours of this morning, my time, 304.43 was the latest driver, but I'll check again and see if anything new has been posted to their web site. |
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09-24-2012, 02:26 PM
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#33
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Kentucky
Distribution: Slackware64-current
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304.51 was released today
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09-24-2012, 03:08 PM
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#34
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Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current & "True Multilib."
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 273
I suggest you download the latest NVIDIA driver (I think it's 304.51) as the blue people problem has been cured for a while.
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Well, here you go. Installing 304.51, didn't make a bit of difference: |
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09-24-2012, 03:09 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware & Slackware64 14.1
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You'll still get blue people with 304.51, if you don't disable hardware acceleration.
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09-24-2012, 03:25 PM
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Blue people don't bother me much.
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09-24-2012, 03:25 PM
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Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid + various in VMs.
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That's extremely odd, I don't see the problem with 305.48 or 305.51 with hardware acceleration enabled.
I also know that NVIDIA have had a patch for this since January.
I wonder if it's only fixed for some cards?
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09-24-2012, 03:34 PM
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#38
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware & Slackware64 14.1
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Possibly. Mine is a GTS 450.
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09-24-2012, 03:39 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware & Slackware64 14.1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mlangdn
Blue people don't bother me much.
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I bet they would if you met a few in real life.  |
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09-24-2012, 03:52 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware & Slackware64 14.1
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Whose fault is this problem: Adobe's or Nvidia's? We all know Adobe doesn't give a **** about Linux, so I'm inclined to point the finger at them.
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09-24-2012, 03:59 PM
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#41
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Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
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Seems to be Adobe's. They call VDPAU incorrectly or something -- there's discussion on some NVIDIA forums but it's a little technical for me. One of the discussions is here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=177380 |
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2 members found this post helpful.
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09-24-2012, 04:33 PM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware & Slackware64 14.1
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These two, mentioned in that forum thread, seem to work:
/etc/profile.d/fix_flash.sh
Code:
#!/bin/sh
export VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg
Code:
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
Last edited by brianL; 09-25-2012 at 03:01 AM.
Reason: added #!/bin/sh
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1 members found this post helpful.
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09-24-2012, 06:11 PM
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#43
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Registered: Aug 2012
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Binary Blob, but an older version as the newer 3xx series lost some functionality.
I found out the hard way that using the 3xx series drivers breaks the RandR extension (Alt+CTRL+[+/-] do not work any longer the driver only supports rotation... so I use the 270 series since the functionality is not missing in that driver and my card is old enough to negate any befits the newer drivers have to offer. (I am running on a 9600m GT)
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09-24-2012, 09:56 PM
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#44
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Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current & "True Multilib."
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brianL
These two, mentioned in that forum thread, seem to work:
/etc/profile.d/fix_flash.sh
Code:
export VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg
Code:
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
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Many thanks! The combination of those two fixed the blue skin tone problem.
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09-24-2012, 10:04 PM
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#45
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Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Arch Linux
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still using proprietary but might switch eventually
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