Bug#469396: totem crashes on play

["Chris Hansen" <albanx99@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Chris Hansen <albanx99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
>  > found 469396 2:2.1.0-2
>  >  retitle 469396 [830M XAA] XvShmPutImage returns BadAlloc when using compiz
>  >  kthxbye
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Wed, Mar  5, 2008 at 20:05:04 +0100, Chris Hansen wrote:
>  >
>  >  > >  On Wed, Mar  5, 2008 at 01:01:47 +0100, Chris Hansen wrote:
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  > $ totem-xine --sync
>  >  > >  > The program 'totem-xine' received an X Window System error.
>  >  > >  > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>  >  > >  > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>  >  > >  >   (Details: serial 85 error_code 11 request_code 141 minor_code 19)
>  >  > >
>  >  > /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>  >  >
>  >  [...]
>  >
>  > > (II) LoadModule: "intel"
>  >  > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so
>  >  > (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>  >  >       compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 2.1.0
>  >  >       Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>  >  >       ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2
>  >  [...]
>  >
>  > > (==) intel(0): Using XAA for acceleration
>  >
>  >  Hi Chris,
>  >
>  >  this should be fixed when using EXA instead of XAA for acceleration.
>  >  EXA is the default in recent versions of the intel driver.  Can you
>  >  confirm that totem works with the driver from unstable or experimental?
>  >  (or maybe with Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" with the version from testing,
>  >  although I suspect there are other bugs there)
>
>  Hi Julien,
>
>  Two things:
>
>  Since I posted the bug, I've switched back to Metacity. However, on a
>  recent upgrade Testing Metacity was automatically configured to run in
>  composite mode. Same problem with Totem, it crashed.
>
>  I did not try either the unstable or the experimental version of the
>  Intel driver since AccelMethod EXA works like a charm. I added the
>  option and now Totem doesn't crash anymore.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Chris

I would also add that with EXA, my desktop (Gnome) gets *really* slow
when I'm using either Compiz or Metacity in compositing mode. It
became so slow that I switched back to XAA.

Cheers,
Chris