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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:15:01
Message-Id: 200904172314.51259.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes by Mark Knecht
1 On Freitag 17 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing.
4 > mythfrontend is segfaulting for me also, but my problem has spread to
5 > pretty much any application that tries to display video - mplayer,
6 > xine and Myth all crash with similar errors. Only xine doesn't crash X
7 > completely and leaves behind anything in terms of clues.
8 >
9 > I've also tried upgrading xorg-x11 to version 7.4. No changes.
10 >
11 > mark@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ xine
12 > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
13 > (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
14 > X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
15 > Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo)
16 > Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
17 > Serial number of failed request: 1814
18 > Current serial number in output stream: 1815
19 > mark@dragonfly ~/Desktop $
20 >
21 > Note that this isn't even trying to play the file, it's just trying
22 > to start the user interface.
23 >
24 > I see segfault and error/warning messages in dmesg:
25 >
26 > mtrr: no MTRR for f0000000,8000000 found
27 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
28 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
29 > X[22596]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bf91df1c error 4 in
30 > Xorg[8048000+179000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
31 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
32 > X[22764]: segfault at 20000d8 ip b7f266c4 sp bfd56a80 error 4 in
33 > libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0[b7f25000+7000]
34 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
35 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
36 >
37 > The MTRR warnings have been around forever on this machine. I think
38 > the drm:i915 warning is benign in that it's supposedly saying the
39 > kernel doesn't have gem support, but I could be very wrong about that.
40 >
41 > The kernel is recent but not the most up to date.
42 >
43 > Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further?
44 > I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's
45 > probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially
46 > for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something
47 > uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!)
48 >
49 > I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested.
50 >
51 > Anyway, all thoughts appreciated.
52 >
53 > Cheers,
54 > Mark
55
56 have you rebuilt libxv?
57 what happens if you don't use xv but xshm as output plugin?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>