[mythtv-users] Floating point exception

[Scott]

On 11/30/2010 5:00 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 12:17 PM, Scott wrote:
>> On 11/29/2010 10:23 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
>>> Every program I have of mythTV is failing to come up and giving me the
>>> following error.
>>>
>>> # mythtv-setup
>>> Floating point exception.
>>>
>>> Is this a sse/sse2 issue with a Athlon-xp
> >    Are you using a nvidia card?   -GeForce 7600 GS
>
> Yes!  this is ASUS Nvidia loaded machine with a Athlon-XP cpu.  
> Several of us have figured out it is an openSuSE 11.4 and/or KDE4.5 
> problem and not a MythTV 0.24 problem at all.  I am not running a 
> kernel without DRM or nouveau in the kernel.  It is running a NV.run file
>
> NIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.21.run.
>
its the nvidia driver, go back to 2 versions from the current release.
I had a 6200 and the same error, installed the previous driver version 
and the problem went away.