[mythtv-users] Segmentation fault starting "mythtv"

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 23:50:31 UTC 2005


On 8/14/05, Andy Pflueger <andypflueger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/13/05, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Why are you running "mythtv"?  It is my understanding
> > that you should be running, "mythfrontend", and not
> > "mythtv".
> >
> > The reason /dev/nvidia0 is being checked is because
> > it's trying to use OpenGL Vsync (which to my knowledge
> > is only guaranteed to work with nVidia cards).  Go
> > into mythfrontend, and disable this option (it's under
> > the Hardware page, along with the PVR-350 and XvMC
> > settings).
> >
> > There should be no need to recompile.
> >
> > -- Joe
> >
> 
> I was running mythtv just to see if I could get the TV viewer to run.
> I have been trying mythfrontend as well and keep getting the following
> seg fault as a result:
> 
> mytoy andy # mythfrontend
> 2005-08-13 19:00:43.652 New DB connection, total: 1
> Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1
> 2005-08-13 19:00:43.657 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0
> 2005-08-13 19:00:43.661 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-08-13 19:00:43.661 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-08-13 19:00:43.975 Switching to square mode (PurpleGalaxy)
> 2005-08-13 19:00:44.436 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2005-08-13 19:00:44.445 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
> 2005-08-13 19:00:44.446 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
> 2005-08-13 19:00:44.788 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.436 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.467 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.2:5143
> (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.481 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.538 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.972 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.972 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-08-13 19:00:47.999 Using XV port 53
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Could this be related to XvMC and incompatibility with my ATI Radeon card?

I didn't know the ATI driver supported XvMC (thought it was only
NVidia) but I could be wrong. Try not using XvMC (still use Xv) and
see if this improves things.

Nick


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