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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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?

As of xf86-video-intel 2.0, the driver defaults to using all the
available aperture space, so the VideoRam directive can only decrease
the amount of available memory but never increase it.


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