[mythtv-users] Re: # apt-get install ivtv gives segmentation faults and failed reboot

[yok mo]

>You should check why those segfaults happen. Haven't
>seen any such reports. Seems like a broken kde lib.

I just did a fresh RH9 install, with NVidia 440MX graphics card and PVR-250 
capture card. I followed Jarod's excellent tutorial (thank you very 
much!!!), including using apt and kernel update (thank you Axel!!!).

KDE was working fine (no seg faults when I tried to launch a program such as 
kate). Once I did a:
# apt-get install nvidia-graphics-kmdl-$KERNEL
# apt-get install nvidia-graphics-glx

I immediately had seg faults when I tried kate again. Also, when I 
re-started X, I then got the "Could not start kdeinit". I could start Gnome 
and failsafe sessions, although kate seg faulted there as well.  Once I rpm 
-e these two modules, KDE and kate worked great again. During all these 
tests, I did not touch my XF86Config file.  (as a side note, if I were to 
update my XF86Config file to the documented changes, I could not get X to 
start. I had the same exact error messages that Romel had listed below).

I did notice (in my install as well as this thread) that the nvidia driver 
version 1.0_4496 was being used. In Jarod's document, it states to use 
version 1.0-4363 - Could this be one of the reasons why? It appears that the 
apt-get is downloading the newer nvidia driver. Perhaps I was suppose to 
specify the older version when I ran it?

I went ahead and downloaded source from NVidia, and installed v1.0-4363. 
Once I did this, I could then update my XF86Config file, and everything is 
gravy. I'm off and running again, KDE is working fine and I'm now capturing 
videos.

I'm no Linux guy, so I could be out in left field. But I thought I'd pass on 
my observations in hopes that they help / make sense to someone =)

Thanks everyone for the great work, this is an awesome project!!!
-Curtis

>
>I'm not familiar enough with Linux to check segfaults.
>One work around is to launch the app prior to loading
>nvidia-graphics-glx.
>
>>8a. "Parse error on line 9 of Section ServerLayout
>
>in
>
>>file /etc/X11/XF86config.
>
>
>>Add
>>ModulePath
>>"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>>ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"
>>ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>>to /etc/X11/XF86Config in ServerLayout and
>>remove/comment the dri module.
>
>
>Sorry that is an error, these lines belong to Section
>"Files", not "ServerLayout".
>
>I made the changes. X still doesn't work, but at least
>your suggested changes fix the Parse error. This is
>the new error that I'm getting and suspect have been
>getting these past few weeks when attempting to
>install the nvidia driver:
>
>NV: Could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no
>such file or direct
>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel
>(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** module!
>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Screen(s) found, but none have a
>usable config.
>
>I login in failsafe mode. Use my backup copy of
>XF86Config, but once again when I login and prior to
>KDE loading, I get the "Could not start kdeinit. Check
>yur installation" error. I can only resolve it by
>running rpm -e nvidia-graphics-glx in failsafe mode.
>
>Very strange.
>
>Also, are the apt-get packages updated to .12? I would
>like to move-on for now and complete my myth install
>but as of this morning, I'm only finding .11 specific
>directories when I ran the apt-get mythsuite.
>
>Thanks! So very close.
>
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