Bug#769057: xbmc: using VDPAU, segfault when going full screen while playing certain videos

[Gedalya]

On 11/30/2014 07:50 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> To me it looks similar to this Mesa bug:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85613
>
> There is a suggestion for using latest firmware.
> Could you please give the updated firmware a try from:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
>
> Possibly the one shipped in firmware-linux-nonfree is outdated.
>
> Cheers,
> Balint

Got a moment to try this just now. Updated /lib/firmware/radeon/* to 
what is in git master. Same behavior.

Here are the firmwares I'm using in case that matters.

# dmesg | grep radeon
[    3.566246] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[    3.578716] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 2048M 0x0000000000000000 - 
0x000000007FFFFFFF (2048M used)
[    3.578718] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 1024M 0x0000000080000000 - 
0x00000000BFFFFFFF
[    3.578768] [drm] radeon: 2048M of VRAM memory ready
[    3.578769] [drm] radeon: 1024M of GTT memory ready.
[    3.656846] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin
[    3.665125] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
radeon/CAICOS_me.bin
[    3.673315] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
radeon/BTC_rlc.bin
[    3.673580] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
radeon/CAICOS_mc.bin
[    3.673724] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
radeon/CAICOS_smc.bin
[    3.677951] [drm] radeon: dpm initialized
[    3.685190] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
radeon/SUMO_uvd.bin
[    3.685595] [drm] enabling PCIE gen 2 link speeds, disable with 
radeon.pcie_gen2=0
[    3.704269] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB enabled
[    3.704270] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 
0x0000000080000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff8807facfac00
[    3.704271] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 
0x0000000080000c0c and cpu addr 0xffff8807facfac0c
[    3.705794] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 
0x0000000000072118 and cpu addr 0xffffc90007932118
[    3.705807] radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 56 for MSI/MSI-X
[    3.705813] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: using MSI.
[    3.705837] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[    4.185011] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    4.350686] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[    4.350687] radeon 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
[    4.367391] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.39.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 
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