Bug#604687: Same issue here on macmini G4 ppc

[Jiggy Bau]

Experiencing the same issue on macmini G4 ppc with a Radeon 9200 card. Mplayer works fine, VLC does not. Noticed further issues with Xserver:1) When running Xorg -configure, X crashes with the following message: (excerpt)List of video drivers:
	radeon
	mach64
	r128
	ati
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(II) [KMS] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol, no kernel modesetting.

Backtrace:
0: Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x54) [0x10183dc0]
1: Xorg (0x10000000+0x188040) [0x10188040]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_sigtramp_rt32+0x0) [0x100370]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so (xf86ExtendedInitInt10+0x264) [0xf6ce4e8]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so (VBEExtendedInit+0x2d8) [0xf710984]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so (VBEInit+0x28) [0xf710b08]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (0xf82c000+0x49d5c) [0xf875d5c]
7: Xorg (DoConfigure+0xe00) [0x10069098]
8: Xorg (InitOutput+0xb84) [0x100781d8]
9: Xorg (0x10000000+0x1edb8) [0x1001edb8]
10: /lib/libc.so.6 (0xfac1000+0x1f63c) [0xfae063c]
11: /lib/libc.so.6 (0xfac1000+0x1f800) [0xfae0800]
Bus error at address 0x48173000

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 7 (Bus error). Server aborting

2) syslog shows messages like: (don't know if it matters)Oct 11 00:17:47 macmini kernel: [ 1756.527455] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents
Oct 11 00:17:47 macmini kernel: [ 1756.527589] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents

3) xdpyinfo lists XVideo among extensions, but doing a xdpyinfo -ext XVideo results in the following message: XVideo extension not supported by xdpyinfo
BTW I upgraded xorg server to testing version, and since then I noticed one improvement:xdriinfo now says "Screen 0: r200", whereas before it said "not direct rendering capable". Again, no idea if this has any connection to the XVideo issue. Also, I installed firmware-linux-nonfree, and noticed better performance (when running glxgears), but no joy with VLC.
I'd be happy to run any sort of tests and provide any kind of information needed to fix this bug.
Cheers,Pavle.
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