[GRLUG] running kplayer or kaffeine crashes X

[eah]

On Monday 12 November 2007 21:19:26 pm Michael Mol wrote:
> 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
>
> Also, I'm active on #grlug right now, if you've got a separate machine
> with an IRC client.

ok. xv is out. but opengl works fine. coupled with oss audio, files play fine. 
gonna play with it for a while (ie watching all my videos :-) ) 

thanks!