Archive for the ‘GeForce’ tag
Fixing the garbled video issue in Ubuntu for NVIDIA cards
Some of you (actually a very few I guess), might be experiencing a weird and random issue of having all your videos play garbled or corrupted with lots of pink and green lines. The corruption / garbling also leads to a total freeze at times, for me at least. As an example this is how your video would look like when played in ANY player:
Yeah any, VLC, MPlayer, you name it. Once it starts appearing it appears in everything you play!
I don’t know of a proper bug page for this at Launchpad but I do know the fix. Apparently its something bad in the nvidia-glx-new driver package that makes this happen. So the fix is to roll back to the normal nvidia-glx driver. You can either run the following or just click on the link to do so:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
That should probably fix it (as it has for me). In case someone stumbles here with a better workaround than to lose performance with the removal of the nvidia-glx-new driver, do post it here.
P.s. This is exclusive only to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 I think. Cause I haven’t seen any such issues on Feisty on either of the drivers.
P.s. again. I use a GeForce 7600GT by the way. And this thing was sure a pain in the ___.
