[mythtv-users] Gentoo users - be careful with nvidia-drivers-190.53

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 22:16:06 UTC 2009


On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Manuel McLure <manuel at mclure.org> wrote:
>> I tested nvidia-drivers-190.53 last night and found that any time I
>> attempted to play a recording, mythfrontend would get stuck at the
>> "Please Wait" screen. Checking mythfrontend.log showed
>>
>> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
>> object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> The problem is that 190.53 has moved libvdpau_nvidia.so from the lib32
>> or lib64 directory to a "vdpau" subdirectory. The solution in my case
>> (since I'm running 64-bit) was to do
>>
>> cd /usr/lib64
>> ln -s vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so .
>>
>> If you're running 32-bit gentoo, you should of course make the symlink
>> in the lib32 directory.
>>
>
> I had this earlier this week and fixed that by
>
> # cd /usr/lib/vdpau/
> # ldconfig
>
> John
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I noticed there's a libvdpau-.3 in portage.  Either of you try that version?


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