Bug#592204: nvidia-vdpau-driver: Segfault on VDPAU using apps that call XCloseDisplay

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-01-26 23:02, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure if this is even supposed to work, but at the very
> least it is rather fishy. Anyway, the libvdpau part has been fixed, and
> it of course fixes the issue on all those cases where the main program
> is directly linked against libXext.so.6 (which I guess most VDPAU users
> are, except for my testcase) as that the libXext callbacks will always
> be present at XCloseDisplay() time.

Thanks for the clarification. Adding -lXext makes your program work
properly. I have now cherry-picked this patch and uploaded it to sid,
perhaps we can still get this into wheezy.


Andreas