[GRLUG] running kplayer or kaffeine crashes X

[Michael Mol]

On Nov 12, 2007 9:17 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 9:03 PM, eah <darth_linux at ameritech.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 12 November 2007 20:54:43 pm Michael Mol wrote:
> >
> > > Any video, or just videos of a particular codec?
> > >
> > > On Nov 12, 2007 8:29 PM, eah <darth_linux at ameritech.net> wrote:
> > > > hey all,
> > > >
> > > > if i try to play video using kaffeine or kplayer, fedora7 crashes x.
> > > > any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > does this data from /var/log/messages help? (xorg.conf attached)
> > Nov 12 20:26:00 mobiledarth kernel: [fglrx] PCIe has already been initialized.
> > Reinitializing ...
> > Nov 12 20:26:00 mobiledarth kernel: [fglrx] GART Table is not in FRAME_BUFFER
> > range
> > Nov 12 20:26:00 mobiledarth kernel: [fglrx] Reserve Block - 0 offset =  0X0
> > length = 0X40000
> > Nov 12 20:26:00 mobiledarth kernel: [fglrx] Reserve Block - 1 offset =
> > 0X7ff5000 length = 0Xb000
> > Nov 12 20:27:18 mobiledarth kdm[2380]: X server for display :0 terminated
> > unexpectedly
>
> Did you kill X manually (i.e. through Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or via a kill
> command), or did it die on its own?  There's a 78 second gap between
> the last fglrx log and the kdm alert.  If everything happened
> automatically, I wouldn't necessarily blame fglrx.
>
> And, you're right, avi, wmv and mpg files would use different codecs.
> mpg and wmv would certainly be different.
>
> If you don't have it already, install mplayer.  It has a command-line
> option that lets you control how video gets put on the screen.  You
> can select between straight X11, XVideo (xv), a couple OpenGL
> approaches, and even AALib.  If you can determine which output mode
> crashes X, you'll have a better idea which subsystem is to blame.
>
> To get a list list of the video output modes you can try, type:
> mplayer -vo help
>
>
> >
> > eah

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