Okay
Thank you for your support.
I just reinstalled Fedora on the Laptop, and everything works
fine with that. Thanks again for all your help though. I still use ubuntu
personally, don't worry ;)
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steve
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 02:28:40 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Bug 375129] Re: x crashes when playing a video in totem or vlc
>
> Stephen, you have a fairly new graphics chipset (GM45) and the support
> for that wasn't very good in the (now) old intel driver 2.2.1 that Hardy
> (8.04) was shipped with. Actually, according to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA the chipset was launched in July
> 2008, and Hardy was shipped in April 2008. With such recent hardware, I
> can only recommend using the newer Ubuntu version 9.04 as a lot of work
> has been done in the driver to support newer chipsets since last year.
>
> Unfortunately, you can't use Jaunty's drivers in Hardy. This is because
> the driver depends on newer versions of libdrm, mesa, and probably the
> linux kernel and the xserver. If you change all of this, you basically
> get a new distribution.
>
> I'm closing this bug report (setting the status to Invalid) which does
> not mean that you're not experiencing a real problem, only that it is a
> problem we simply cannot solve.
>
> To work around your problem, you may try a number of things. One thing is to
> try if you can turn of "xv" or "XVideo" in the video player. You may also
> disable it in xorg.conf with the line
> Option "XVideo" "false"
> in the "Device" section of your xorg.conf. You may try the forums or other
> the "Answers" section on Launchpad to find other workarounds.
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: totem
> Status: New => Invalid
>
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> x crashes when playing a video in totem or vlc
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375129
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>
> Status in Totem Movie Player: Invalid
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
> I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on an HP pavillion dv5 laptop with an Intel
> Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD. Everytime I open a video in Vlc or Totem
> (both players I've tried), x freezes. Initially after installing, the mouse
> would still work after the freeze, but I could not switch to a terminal, only
> hold down the power button or use 'alt+print screen' and 'r,s,e,i,t,b' to
> turn off the laptop. Upon restart it starts fine. After updating, even the
> mouse freezes, although that seems to be the only thing that has changed.
> Even opening vlc in terminal results in the crash as soon as I open a file.
> Even an mp3, (although in all cases above, sound will play).
> I recently put 8.04 LTS on this laptop as for the past week I tried to
> get sound to work on 9.04 (which I could not do). Interestingly, the sound
> works great here, but now I can't play video. could I install whatever x
> server or intel drivers ubuntu 9.04 uses?
>
> - thanks
>
> I'm newer to the ubuntu scene and have only used ubuntu for about 2 weeks.
> (although I've used Fedora 8,9, and 10 over the past two years on my
> desktop). Fedora 10 x64 also worked on this laptop if that helps. (I'm
> switching only because this laptop is used by a few others besides myself
> downloading and giving presentations, and Ubuntu seems more intuitive to
> them, and also seems to be able to browse much faster on the internet).
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