Which nVidia package to install?

[PeterTaps]

Folks,

In the past, I use to install "nvidia-current" as the package for my nvidia card. Now, I am building a new system and plan to have XBMC on it.

XBMC wiki suggests the following:


apt-cache search nvidia | grep glx

Looking at the listed versions from the command above enter the following command substituting 185 if you desire a different version:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-185 nvidia-settings mesa-utils libvdpau-dev


I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 minimal server.

When I search for glx package, it returns "glx-alternative-nvidia" to me. There is no nvidia-glx-nnn package.

Should I install "nvidia-current" or "glx-alternative-nvidia" package?

Regards,
Peter

[oldfred]

I do not have minimal, but what do these show. Not sure if sudo needed or not.

#To see available versions:
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia*
apt-cache search nvidia-sett*

[papibe]

Hi PeterTaps.

Could you post the result of these commands?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

sudo lshw -C display

AFAIK, you need 2 packages: the proper driver and libvdpau1.

Regards.

EDIT: libvdpau1 is the good one. vdpau-va-driver is optional.

[PeterTaps]

Thank you for your help.

For now, I have installed "nvidia-current."

Here is the output of lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2] [10de:1245] (rev a1)
Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:3178]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia

And here is the output of sudo lshw -C display

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2] [10de:1245] (rev a1)
Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:3178]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia


Regards,
Peter

[papibe]

Then, you need to make sure you have the vdpau driver installed:

sudo apt-get install libvdpau1
That should do it.

Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

NOTE: XBMC and S/mplayer can work directly with libvdpau1. You may install vdpau-va-driver if you are going to use VLC.

[PeterTaps]

Thank you for your help. I have now installed both libvdpau1 and vdpau-va-driver.

Regards,
Peter