Bug#425464: totem-xine: Totem crashes when trying to play video

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 21 mai 2007 à 21:37 +0100, David a écrit :
> Package: totem-xine
> Version: 2.16.6-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I use Debian unstable, my graphic card is VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller 
> (rev 03), I use Beryl, and the screen resolution is 1280x800.
>  
> I tried to open an .avi file (I have the w32codecs installed) and totem crashed. The output on the shell is
>  
> 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 67 error_code 11 request_code 141 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.)

I have already seen this on a i955GM graphics card. The solution is to
increase the available video memory (these controllers use shared system
memory) with the VideoRAM option in xorg.conf.

@debian-x: would it be possible to increase the allocated video RAM for
the i810 driver?
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