Whoops one more: add -opengl to your use flags - and re-emerge. David
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blastzone Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 5:37 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Problems running Myth - segfault starting liveTV No joy. Still the same problem. running mythfrontend with the -v all flag returns a log file ending with "nVidiaVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/nvidia0; no such file or directory" On 8/20/05, David Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put -nvidia in your USE Flags in "/etc/make.conf" and emerge mythtv again. > This will remove the NVidia support and presumably allow you to start. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blastzone > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mythtv-users] Problems running Myth - segfault starting liveTV > > I've been working on a MythTV box for a few months now, and it's been > one trouble after another. > > Word of caution: Pundit-R's don't seem to like SATA HDD and PATA DVD > drives together. > > I've put in a Hauppauge PVR-250 and a 160GB PATA drive along with the > DVD-RW drive. > > The system is running Gentoo 2005.1 > So far, so good, I can watch DVDs through mplayer > > I installed the Hauppauge card, and had problems getting it to tune. > Seems that the tuner module does not load with the correct tuner > parameter. On boot I have to manually unload that module with an > rmmod, and reload it with a "modprobe tuner type=39". Then the card > will tune to NSTC cable (using mplayer & ptune-ui to test) > > Started up Myth for the first time. Backend runs OK, frontend starts > OK. Try to choose Live TV, and the screen goes black for about 5 sec, > then returns to X (using evilWM) with a "segmentation fault" error. > No other information is provided. > > I've rebuilt Myth from source, and build using the --debug option, but > I can't seem to get mythfrontend to start from a virtual console and > display on the local X. it tells me no X server is available (yes, X > is running, and the DISPLAY variable is set). Running mythfrontend in > gdb locally ends up locking the display when it segfaults. Ctl-C, etc > does not get me back to the console to view the GDB output (only > solution is killing the X server). > > So, I turned on verbose logging. Just before it segfaults, the > logfile shows myth looking for /dev/nvidia0 Which doesn't exist on > my pundit's ATI board. > > Following this recent thread: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/144660 has not > proved helpful as the instructions to disable XvMC (settings -> next > -> next, etc). don't jive with myth 0.18.1 > > The .configure output when building myth shows no XvMC and no OpenGL > support, so, wtf? > > Bottom line: Why is myth looking for /dev/nvidia0 when it shouldn't > be?, how do I stop that?, and why will there be no broadcast HDTV in > my area until fall 2006? > > Thanks for anyone's help. I can't imagine that pundit-R + pvr250 + > gentoo is a strange combination, so odds are SOMEONE has fought with > this before. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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