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Lobster · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 13:41 Post subject:

Thanks to Larry (playdayz) I hope the culprit for my WSOD (White Screen of Death) and problems with streaming video may be solved. It is likely to be the proprietary Catalyst driver. The xorg high seems to work . . .

I could not understand how Ubuntu Firefox with the same Flash version was allowing streaming. Then I realized it does not have the ATI driver by default.

If you are having streaming problems, make sure you use the ppm to remove the driver before installing the xorg high driver.

Hope this is the solution. For me it is a show stopper bug Smile

Lobster · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 13:45 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:56 Post subject:

Bert · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 698

Could this be a bug:

I installed the nvidia driver 260.19.12, the one recommended by Quickpet for my nvidia Ion GPU.
( I was happy without it, but hoped it would help in running Google Earth)
As I feared, based on earlier experience, full screen flash video became much worse with the nvidia driver.
So, I uninstalled it with the PPM.and PPM told me it was uninstalled successfully. It disappeared from the installed-pets-list.

But, much to my surprise, the nvidia driver was still there, in the menu and in the file system. Even after restarrting X and after a reboot.

Anyone knows what's happening here?

Second question: why do nvidia drivers actually lower the performance of a nvidia ION gpu?
Thanks!

Tasgarth · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 197 Location: France, Besancon

Bert wrote :

bigpup · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 17:04 Post subject:

Lupu 515
Frugal install HDD

The NV Nvidia selection in Xorgwizard is not the Nvidia driver you install from Quickpet.
The Nvidia selection in Xorgwizard is the Nvidia driver from Quickpet.

I use Nvidia driver 173.14.25.
I removed the driver with PPM and it was removed. All entries in menu removed.
System no longer using the Nvidia driver. So PPM worked for me.
Could there be something in the driver package that keeps it from being removed properly by PPM?

Lobster · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 17:06 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 17:25 Post subject:

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Bert · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 698

Thanks Tasgarth and bigpup,

But I give up. I cannot remove the nvidia driver with PPM and most of what you are saying here is above my head.

I downloaded the Nvidia driver 173.14.25 from NVIDIA, but it refuses to install, being a "-pkg1.run" format.

Not that I ever would completely give up Wink

Will probaly wipe this Lupu and start all over, hoping one of the Devs will find the nvidia-ppm-bug...

Thanks again.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1494 Location: Ontario Canada

bigpup · Posted: Tue 21 Dec 2010, 20:44 Post subject:

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

Are you aware that UNetBootin install fails with Lucu-515 and with wary-102.
Barry is going to make wary final release without UNetBootin support... Crying or Very sad

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld