On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's more info on the blue people in videos issue. It is a flash problem. Someone at nvidia wrote a patch. See
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137877&p=1
http://plagman.net/stuff/0001-vdpau_trace-WAR-Flash-quirks.patch
Or changing flash's settings to disable hardware acceleration can work, too. I get nice 1080p playback without it, so I skipped the patch.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Mauriat Miranda <mlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Most likely this is a relatively new piece of hardware, so you wouldOn Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just plugged an NVidia GT520 into my Fedora 17 machine and I have two
> monitors working with the nouveau driver with zero effort on my part. Yay.
> But videos are jumpy so I want to try the proprietary driver.
>
> I went to the How-to that's been recommended on this list, at
>
> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
>
> Where the first task is to figure out which driver to install. The options
> are "GeForce 6 and Newer," "GeForce 5 (FX Series)," and "GeForce 2 through
> GeForce 4."
>
> You're supposed to see what lspci says to figure out which you have, but my
> lspci output is a little obtuse:
>
> [matt@matt ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1040 (rev a1)
>
> Which one do I have?
select the "and Newer" category.
You were correct. I didn't realize how old the 6 series was.
Ironically, with the proprietary driver Fedora doesn't see my second monitor, and while videos play beautifully smoothly, people in them all look very blue! Only in videos ... I don't see any other color issues. Anyway, consider this one solved.
Here's more info on the blue people in videos issue. It is a flash problem. Someone at nvidia wrote a patch. See
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137877&p=1
http://plagman.net/stuff/0001-vdpau_trace-WAR-Flash-quirks.patch
Or changing flash's settings to disable hardware acceleration can work, too. I get nice 1080p playback without it, so I skipped the patch.
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