On 04/12/2011 06:37 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Tuesday 12 Apr 2011 07:43:32 Mark Goldstein wrote:
When I tried to run VLC from the root shell, I've got an error message clearly saying it should not run as a root.
In my case VLC (from Packman) under 11.4/KDE4 fails with "Floating point exception". Googling revealed very strange workaround: run it under strace. It's this: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648718 Upgrade your nvidia driver.
Will
"Ah, the old, 'It's *HIS* fault not mine!', trick, eh Chief?" (paraphrasing Maxwell Smart) :-) . By some lucky, it would seem now, coincidence, 11.4 with *KDE* automatically installs the latest nVidia driver which (in my case at least) is #190. But...unhappily, no vlc :-( . Back to the drawing-board....... BC -- Great Man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty Man reaches complete understanding of the minute details." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org