[Pkg-fglrx-devel] fglrx-driver makes xserver exit with segfault when opening a video

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 04.01.2012 16:54, schrieb david:
> Hi, first of all sorry for mailing directly instead of replying a bug.
> I've never used the reportbug tool, yesterday I've been trying to use it
> but I've found it "strange". I'd improve my knowledges about it :)
> I'd like to sorry for my English too.
> I've got the problem mentioned in the mail subject with the 11-12-1
> fglrx-driver. Tried with vlc && gnome-mplayer. It did not crash with
> flash on Iceweasel.
> X crashed everytime I've tried to open a video and backed up to kdm's
> login window. Segfault error 4 in gdk..... IRQ disabled.
> Solved the problem by downgrading all the xserver's packages back to
> Squeeze. It seems to be working fine now.

This is a known problem, see bug #649346
It happens with the following setup:

* Newest xserver-xorg
* amd64 system
* using vdpau/xvba/xv video extension

AMD is aware of this issue (I am in contact with the developers).

Cheers.