Known bug with fglrx, already filed on launchpad against fglrx-installer. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:53:56AM +0530, Pritam Baral wrote: > 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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