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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

[jaunty] X crashes when playing video (but not only then) (Intel 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML)

Bug #353023 reported by Björn Tillenius on 2009-04-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #354688: crash in drm_intel_gem_bo_start_gtt_access. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

I have a Sony Vaio TZ (22VN), with graphics chip Intel 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML and X crashes time from time. Sometimes it simply displays garbled graphics, and it doesn't quite crash, but I have to restart the server. However, if I try to play a video using mplayer and the xv driver, I consistently get garbled graphics and the server is restarted.

If I try to play a video using totem, I don't get a server crash, but it fails with this error:

"""
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 82 error_code 11 request_code 132 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
"""

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 10:01:17 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote on 2009-04-01:

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Jordan Hall (jordan-hall) wrote on 2009-05-03:

I can also confirm this error is returned on my eeePC 900, however X does not crash - but Totem closes when attempting to play video, with the same terminal output.

I have discovered a work around is to open 'gstreamer-properties' -> 'Video' tab -> Set 'Plugin' to 'X Window System (No Xv)'. However, this seems to affect the performance of video playback in some cases.