On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > 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. > Did you read this and follow the advice to work around Xv as mentioned in the elog?
This release of ati-drivers has a crashing bug when using Xv video. To avoid this problem, configure your video playback software for OpenGL output. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193
