[mythtv-users] Floating point exception

[Donn Washburn]

On 11/30/2010 06:00 PM, Scott wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 5:00 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
>> On 11/30/2010 12:17 PM, Scott wrote:
>>> On 11/29/2010 10:23 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
>>>> Every program I have of mythTV is failing to come up and giving me the
>>>> following error.
>>>>
>>>> # mythtv-setup
>>>> Floating point exception.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a sse/sse2 issue with a Athlon-xp
>> >    Are you using a nvidia card?   -GeForce 7600 GS
>>
>> Yes!  this is ASUS Nvidia loaded machine with a Athlon-XP cpu.  
>> Several of us have figured out it is an openSuSE 11.4 and/or KDE4.5 
>> problem and not a MythTV 0.24 problem at all.  I am not running a 
>> kernel without DRM or nouveau in the kernel.  It is running a NV.run 
>> file
>>
>> NIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.21.run.
>>
> its the nvidia driver, go back to 2 versions from the current release.
> I had a 6200 and the same error, installed the previous driver version 
> and the problem went away.
>
I have gone back several versions with no help.  So I don't think that 
is it.  I think it is more of a openSuSE and/or KDE 4.5 problem.  They 
have been screwing around with permissions and tighting up the files 
since it last all worked


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