Re: Gxine crashes and causes X server to die
Darren Salt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.xine.user |
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| Message-ID | <4F88A1DA24%[email protected]> |
I demand that JD may or may not have written... > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:16:47 +0000, > Darren Salt <[email protected]> wrote >> I demand that JD may or may not have written... >>> I have the following xine and xine related RPMS installed: >>> $ rpm -qa | grep xine >>> gxine-0.5.11-14.fc7 >>> xine-lib-1.1.10.1-1.fc7.1 >> [snip] >>> System is FC7 with latest updates on AMD 64 cpu, and ATI Radeon 9600 >>> graphics, and 2GB ram and oodles of disk space. At any rate, if I run >>> gxine it starts up and after I get the gui, it crashes immediately and >>> kills the X server and I have to re-login. >> That says that there's some bugginess in the X server or one of its driver >> modules. >>> However, if I run it via gdb, no problems at all - it comes up, I can >>> play a movie and I exit gxine and all is well. >> That suggests that something uninitialised is being used. BTW, why are you >> using opengl? xv should be fine on that hardware. >> Version numbers of relevant installed X server/driver packages, may help. > The xorg server is > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-16.fc7 > The driver is: > xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-4.fc7 > P.S: I will try to install the ATI/AMD driver > ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64 > to see if it will make any difference You might be better off trying newer xf86-video-ati (it's been a while since 6.6.3 was released) before trying the taintware. (I'm currently using a post-6.8.0 git snapshot.) >>> I am not having this problem with xine itself. Only gxine. >> That's a bit... strange. It does say that startup differences play a part, >> though. > I think it also says there is a timing issue - this is usually the case > when a problem will manifest when debugging is off, but will not manifest > when debugging is on. It's either that or there's something uninitialised. > I have seen this often also in real-time systems development. Heisenbugs are *fun*. :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. I call my computer Hole in the Desk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/