The nvidia 173 driver is meant to support GeForce FX 5 through GeForce 7000 series cards. These cards do have some video acceleration, but they do not support libvdpau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Nvidia_VDPAU_Feature_Sets
Although the 173.xx driver does support GeForce 8000 - GT/X 200 series cards, users of those cards should be using the 304.xx branch for optimum support (including VDPAU). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268312 Title: vdpau missing Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: It seems that while the libvdpau_nvidia library is available for nvidia-current: /usr/lib/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.295.40 So such driver is available for nvidia-173-updates. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates/+bug/1268312/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
