Segmentation Faults???

[e980238]

Hi all,

Everything was running great! Then I try to run xawtv (a tv program for a tv tunner card in linux) and it just keeps saying segmentation fault. So im like ok....ill just install another program. I cant compile one because my libpthread file is messed up or something. So I go ahead an try to install an rpm for tvtime (another tv program for linux). Guess what? rpm also gives me a segmentation fault. I have tried restarting the comp a few times but I have no idea whats going on and that is not fixing it. Can someone please help me? Im running redhat 8.

[CMonster]

Sounds vaugely familliar, I remember having some difficulty with RH7.3 and xawtv -I had to tweak something in XF86Config, something to do with the color depth and screen sizes I believe ...sorry I don't remember clearly, that was a long time ago in Linux/computer years, can't even remember if it was segfaults that was the error I was getting.

Are you starting the program in an xterm? Is there more to the error message?

[e980238]

nah it just said segmentation fault. It did that also when trying to use the rpm command. I then erased the hard drive and put mandrake 9.1 on but I was forced to use an old version of gaim and could not compile or install a newer one. Then I erased the hard drive again and installed redhat 7.3. Everything seems to work fine except for thunderbird (mail client from mozilla) . I used to get things to work pretty well but its been a while since I have used linux on my desktop. Dont quite know what to do for now.

[CMonster]

I remember now that in RH7.3 I had to change the color mode to 16bit because the 24bit I had by default would not work with xawtv and the Nvidia drivers

[e980238]

hmm thats weird. Now im actually using a program that I like way better then xawtv. Its called tvtime and you can put it into full screen. That way you dont have to watch a small box with lots of black around it in full screen mode in xawtv.

[jkrohn]

That way you dont have to watch a small box with lots of black around it in full screen mode in xawtv.

Try changing your Capture setting in XawTV. From GrabDisply to Overlay or vice-versa.

You will find that this solves your problem.

Jkrohn

[e980238]

oh cool. thanks