Bug 6849

Summary:	Video players quits when playing a video file
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Toufeeq Hussain <toufeeqh>
Component:	Driver/intel	Assignee:	Alan Hourihane <alanh>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	7.0.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Toufeeq Hussain 2006-05-06 23:12:20 UTC

When playing a particule video file[1], all video players seem to quit with the
following error:

(totem:27346): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str !=
NULL' failed
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
 (Details: serial 128 error_code 11 request_code 141 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.)

This is on Xorg 7.0.0 on Debian Unstable and has been reported as a bug on
Debian[2]. The error is reproducible on xine,totem and vlc.

Please let me know if any other additional information is required.

[1]  http://freeshell.in/~topa/files/desktop-recording.ogg
[2]  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365885&sourceid=mozilla-search

Thanks.

Comment 1 Alan Hourihane 2006-05-07 01:56:20 UTC

You need to add

Option "LinearAlloc" "<value>"

Where <value> is a size in KB for extra overlay memory, as playing large movies
result in the error you received.

Comment 2 Toufeeq Hussain 2006-05-07 18:09:53 UTC

Thanks.
With the following line added it works fine.

Option "LinearAlloc" "8192"

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