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wasperen

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 17

MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

I updated to the latest package for NVidia on my myth frontend in the living room, last weekend.
Alas it made mythfrontend fail with a segfault before it even started to paint anything except the themes' background.

Reverting back to version 331.49-1 fixed this. I reverted back to version 331.49-1 on the following pacakges:

• nvidia

• nvidia-libgl

• nvidia-utils

I run lxde on my myth frontend. This does not happen on the workstation that runs KDE upstairs...

Hope this helps anyone with similar issues.

Regards,
Wille

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 110

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

I confirm the issue with the latest nvidia update using openbox as Display Manager. XBMC starts fine, mythfrontend crashes.
Downgrading as described by @wasperen may work but lead to problems with slim not letting me login, therefore I am stuck with XBMC for the moment.

hamelg

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From: France

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 129

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501670
Another workaround is moving libGLESv2 out of the way.

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 110

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501670
Another workaround is moving libGLESv2 out of the way.

mv /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLESv2.so.334.21 /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLESv2.so.334.21_OUT_OF_THE_WAY
worked ! thanks

wasperen

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 17

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

Does This not break anything else? I'll try it out tonight and let you guys know if this works for me too.

Last edited by wasperen (2014-03-13 19:02:27)

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

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Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

Does This not break anything else?

So far I didn't remark any issues related directly. but payback image quality is still worse than with previous versions of the driver.

wasperen

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 17

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

Yes. This works. And I can not realy see any issues with playback image quality...
So this looks like a good work around

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 110

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

And I can not realy see any issues with playback image quality...

Mythvideo seems fine ideed, but in XBMC I get this horizontal stripe in the middle of the screen. Is this related to playback filters? Using VDPAU

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 110

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

And I can not realy see any issues with playback image quality...

Mythvideo seems fine ideed, but in XBMC I get this horizontal stripe in the middle of the screen. Is this related to playback filters? Using VDPAU

I just watched a SD recording with mythfrontend and it has horizontal stripes over the screen too ... i think it started with 334.xx version of the nvidia driver

wasperen

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 17

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

With the above hack, I have no issues playing HD video's on MythTV using:

$ pacman -Qs nvidia
local/lib32-nvidia-libgl 334.21-3
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 334.21-3
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libcl 1.1-3
    OpenCL library and ICD loader from NVIDIA
local/libvdpau 0.7-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 334.21-2
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-libgl 334.21-3
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks
local/nvidia-utils 334.21-3
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 334.21-3
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
$ nvidia-smi 
Sat Mar 15 20:46:20 2014       
+------------------------------------------------------+                       
| NVIDIA-SMI 334.21     Driver Version: 334.21         |                       
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GT 630      Off  | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
| 40%   36C  N/A     N/A /  N/A |     70MiB /  2047MiB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                              
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Process name                                     Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0            Not Supported                                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Using lxde and an up-to-date system.

I can also log in using slim 1.3.6-3

Last edited by wasperen (2014-03-15 19:48:45)

wasperen

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 17

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

Just saw that new packaged have come online:

nvidia 	334.21-2
nvidia-libgl 	334.21-5
nvidia-utils 	334.21-5

Anyone tried these with regards to this issue? I am weary...

hamelg

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From: France

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 129

Re: MythTV segfaults with nvidia 334.21-2...

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39570