On 9/13/2005 2:30 PM Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 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'. 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've tried removing and reinstalling both nvtv and nvidia-kernel but no
joy. I'm new to Gentoo and Linux but do have a bit of a *nix background
with FreeBSD. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly
appreciated.
Drew I ahve seen a few messages here from you about mythtv related
stuff. Although I have no problem at all with you posting here, you may
get better results on the mythtv-user list. You can sub from a link on
www.mythtv.org
Thanks for the tip. I do post there when my issue is directly related
to MythTV. I just felt this was more of a Gentoo thing as my issues
started after a "emerge -uvD world".
It is a busy list, quite knowledgeable.
As for nvtv, are you actually using the nvidia driver? - do you get the
nvidia splash screen when you start X?
Yes, I am using the latest (I have ~x86 set) nvidia-kernel driver from
portage as I was before upgrading. I've read that many times the
nvidia-kernel driver has to be recompiled after an upgrade. I think
it's just when upgrading the actual kernel but I recompiled anyway just
to check. It didn't help. I also recompiled nvtv from portage but no
help there either.
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. Maybe I have
a problem with my X config. BTW, I'm using xorg.
Oh, and yes, I do see the nvidia splash screen when starting X on :0.
Thanks for your help! Although I come from the FreeBSD world, I'm a
noob when it comes to both Linux and Gentoo (and MythTV for that matter).
Drew
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