[mythtv-users] nvtv Seg Faults After Upgrading Gentoo

[Drew Tomlinson]

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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