Bug 3075

Summary: Applications crash when using Xvideo on a VIA EPIA
Product: xorg Reporter: Risto A. Paju <teknohog+freedesktopbugz>
Component: Driver/ViaAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: high CC: dberkholz, erik.andren, kit, libv
Version: 6.8.99.3   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
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Description Flags
MPlayer output
none
X server log none

Description Risto A. Paju 2005-04-20 05:34:30 UTC 
MPlayer and XMMS crash when attempting to use the Xvideo extension on a VIA EPIA
MII motherboard (CLE266 graphics chip). The server is xorg-x11-6.8.99.3 from
Gentoo Linux. In both cases, the error message is

BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

Xvideo capability is reported in the X server log.
Comment 1 Risto A. Paju 2005-04-20 13:51:43 UTC 
Created attachment 2484 [details]
MPlayer output
Comment 2 Risto A. Paju 2005-04-20 14:20:45 UTC 
Created attachment 2485 [details]
X server log
Comment 3 Tony Murray 2005-10-25 06:29:40 UTC 
I can confirm this error on my system.

Also, in my Xorg log it appears as though direct rendring has been enabled, but
in reality it hasn't.  Verified by glxinfo and glxgears.

I am using 6.8.99.3 and via drm 2.7.2 20051022.
Comment 4 Tony Murray 2005-10-31 08:23:21 UTC 
This is still there in 6.99.99.901.  Increasing my shared graphics memory from
32Mb to 64Mb did not help at with playing fullscreen video at 1024x768.

For now I am stuck with running X at 800x600 (and 32Mb).
Comment 5 Luc Verhaegen 2005-10-31 08:54:38 UTC 
Could you try unichrome.sf.net CVS please? module xf86-video-unichrome.
That has a completely reworked memory management abstraction.

Also, could you provide a log, there seems to be little to nothing in the first
log attached here.
Comment 6 Thomas Hellström 2006-03-01 19:25:48 UTC 
A badalloc from Xv is usually caused by insufficient bandwidth. There are a
number of other Xv bugs in the driver but probably none causing this.

Could you try to reset BIOS to "Optimal defaults" and try agian.
Comment 7 Erik Andren 2006-04-23 05:57:20 UTC 
Did Thomas tip improve anything?
Comment 8 Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2007-01-25 03:14:53 UTC 
XVideo still not working.
Does anybody fix this problem?
Comment 9 Benjamin Close 2008-01-11 02:38:00 UTC 
Bugzilla Upgrade Mass Bug Change

NEEDSINFO state was removed in Bugzilla 3.x, reopening any bugs previously listed as NEEDSINFO.

  - benjsc
    fd.o Wrangler
Comment 10 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:07:26 UTC 
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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