I have the same issue, but I do have a GeForce 8200 integral on the
motherboard. I was happily running 16.04 with nvidia-304 driver.
Upgraded to 18.04 and nvidia-340 (recommended driver) and the system
hangs a few minutes after booting. If I go into recovery mode and
remove nvidia-340, all good.
Public bug reported:
Running version 16.04.2
vdpau only works as root in version 304.132-0ubuntu0.16.04.2.
I can run vdpauinfo as normal user and get an error, unable to create
device. Run as root (sudo vdpauinfo) and it works. Similarly, running
mythfrontend with vdpau requires sudo
My solution only works for Nvidia graphics cards using Nvidia drivers,
sorry. Technically, it's a work-around, not a fix.
For those who do use Nvidia drivers but do not have an xorg.conf file,
you can generate one with the nvidia-xconfig tool run as root or with
sudo. See
I added the options:
Option ConnectedMonitor DFP-0
Option UseDisplayDevice DFP-0
to the devices section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it seems to have fixed it
- even with the current xfce4-settings installed.
Tests I have done:
1/ boot with the television off, turn it on and get
I am having the same problem. I upgraded frm Mythbuntu 12.04 to 14.04
with the Asus M3N78 motherboard (Nvidia 8200 graphics card
nvidia-304-updates driver).
Using xfce4-settings from Ubuntu 13.10 (as per post #18) fixed it for
me. I have not tried using the suggestion from post #10.
There is
