[mythtv-users] nvtv Seg Faults After Upgrading Gentoo -- SOLVED!!!

[Drew Tomlinson]

Apparently nvtv does not work with the nvidia drivers after 1.0.7174.  
See 'man portage' and look for package.mask to see how to limit versions.

Drew

On 9/15/2005 3:32 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 Gentoo kernel on a box whose main purpose is 
> MythTV.  Everything was working fine until I did an upgrade using 
> 'emerge -uvD world' followed with 'revdep-rebuild' (a Gentoo script 
> that rebuilds dependent libraries).  Now nvtv seg faults when I first 
> attempt to run it.  Additional attempts result in this error message:
>
> Fatal: Cannot access video cards. Either you are not root, or the
> NVidia devices are not accessible.
>
> I get the same message when attempting to run as root.
>
> I also have TightVNC installed on this box and normally start a 
> session on :1.  In checking this further, it is interesting that nvtv 
> starts fine when using :1 via the TightVNC viewer if X is not running 
> on :0.  However once X is on :0, that's when the seg faults start.  
> Thus it appears that nvtv compiled OK.  Maybe I have a problem with my 
> X config?  BTW, I'm using xorg.
>
> I've tried  removing and reinstalling both nvtv and nvidia-kernel but 
> no joy.  I'm new to Linux, Gentoo, and MythTV. However I do have a bit 
> of a *nix background with FreeBSD so I'm not at a total loss.  Any 
> suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>


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