Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113765
xawtv - Warning: Cannot Convert String (Segmentation Fault)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
Description of problem: When launching xawtv as a regular user it flashes the xawtv dialog box and then gives a segmentation fault. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.88-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch xawtv from a terminal window as end user (non-root account) 2. 3. Actual results: This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-1.2149.nptl) Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct Segmentation fault Expected results: xawtv dialog box open and displaying cable television Additional info: Running WinTV card
could you please check which version of XFree86 you have running on your machine? Which Graphic card do you have in your machine? bttv + DRI seem not to play together with some cards like ATI Rage128. The linux box just freezes. It's either a hardware problem or a bug somewhere in DRI (either kernel or xfree86). The only workaround is to turn off DRI.
XFree86 version: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Fedora Core 1: 4.3.0-42) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-2.ELsmp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 24 October 2003 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Graphic Card: Nvidia GeForce 2 Kernel Version: Linux version 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) Note: DRI is commented out in /etc/X11/XF86Config
are you using Nvidia driver from NVIDIA? if yes, it could cause such problem. I have Nvidia GeForce4 and it works fine for me with the driver including in XFree86.
Yes, I'm using the driver from Nvidia. Let me see how the XFree86 driver performs
it works for me with driver included in XFree86