Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need some advice.
> >
> > Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer /
> smplayer
> > and I don't know why.
> >
> > First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio
> >
> > Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati-
> > drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x)
> >
> > Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but
> > doesn't play audio.
> >
> > How can I isolate the problem?
> >
> > Many thanks for a hint,
> > Helmut.
> >
> >
>
> Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste
> it
>
> here.

Unfortunately, that's impossible.

mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and 
forces me to reboot the machine.

Xorg.0.log.old shows


Backtrace:
[  1669.886] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x564f86]
[  1669.886] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x168bc9) [0x568bc9]
[  1669.886] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fa7aa5f4000+0x10ff0) 
[0x7fa7aa604ff0]
[  1669.887] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so 
(xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7fa7a778c372]
[  1669.887] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so 
(xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7fa7a7167cdd]
[  1669.887] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage
+0x12e) [0x7fa7a441f81e]
[  1669.887] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x8a84e) [0x48a84e]
[  1669.888] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so 
(0x7fa7a83f8000+0xf53e) [0x7fa7a840753e]
[  1669.888] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x36979) [0x436979]
[  1669.888] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2613a) [0x42613a]
[  1669.888] 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) 
[0x7fa7a952b3cd]
[  1669.888] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2645d) [0x42645d]
[  1669.888] Segmentation fault at address 0x20

Thanks,
Helmut.