Bug#475035: totem-xine: crashes if compositing is enabled

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> When running compiz or metacity with compositing on (gconf key
> /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager), totem-xine crashes with the
> following message when attempting to play a DVD:
> 
> $ totem-xine
> The program 'totem-xine' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 91 error_code 11 request_code 140 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.)
> 
> 
> It works fine if I turn off compositing in metacity (which implies that
> it doesn't work at all when using compiz).

 This means that more resources are available when compositing is turned
 off than when it's on; can't really tell it's a bug, it could be a
 limitation of your hardware or of your xorg driver.  You could also
 blame xine for not falling back to x11 rendering.

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Loïc Minier