I just came across this unusual behaviour. I upgraded to the new X server on Tuesday night, watched a couple of videos (in VLC, with Hardware Acceleration,) and all was fine. I hadn't rebooted. Somewhere during the early hours of Wednesday, I must have rebooted, tho I don't recall it. In the morning when I try to play a video, X segfaults! I disabled Hardware Acceleration and all was fine! I immediately downgraded packages *xserver-xorg* and *xorg* and rebooted, but the problem was still present.
Info: ATI Radeon 5470 with fglrx from the repos The VLC output: Warning: call to rand() Warning: call to rand() Warning: call to rand() Warning: call to rand() Warning: call to rand() vlc: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0. [0x20de5b0] xcb_xv generic error: X server failure The Xorg.0.log.old showed a Segmentation Fault. I haven't been able to isolate the problem, not having expertise in these matters, and hence couldn't decide which package to file a bug against, but I'm willing to learn. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. PS: Removing fglrx solves the problem, but I think that's more because Hardware Acceleration is not supported by the radeon drivers at all. Regards, Chhatoi Pritam Baral
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