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slackcub

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Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 144

[Solved] Catalyst seg fault when trying to play video

It had been a while since I have done an update, which I just did last night.  Now whenever I try to play video using either VLC, mplayer, or dragon X immediately crashes.  This is what I have in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

[   199.956] 
Backtrace:
[   199.992] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x566a86]
[   199.992] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x16a6e9) [0x56a6e9]
[   199.992] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff3795c1000+0xf850) [0x7ff3795d0850]
[   199.993] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7ff3762fcfb2]
[   199.993] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7ff375ccb01d]
[   199.993] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage+0x12e) [0x7ff372f968de]
[   199.993] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x8866e) [0x48866e]
[   199.993] 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (0x7ff3775e3000+0xf032) [0x7ff3775f2032]
[   199.993] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x33cb9) [0x433cb9]
[   199.993] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x22eea) [0x422eea]
[   199.993] 10: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7ff37850614d]
[   199.993] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x231dd) [0x4231dd]
[   199.993] Segmentation fault at address 0x20
[   199.993] 
Fatal server error:
[   199.993] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[   199.993] 
[   199.993] 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[   199.993] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[   199.993] 
[   200.023] (II) Power Button: Close
[   200.023] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.023] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.053] (II) Video Bus: Close
[   200.053] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.053] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.076] (II) Power Button: Close
[   200.076] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.076] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.116] (II) Sleep Button: Close
[   200.116] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.116] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.193] (II) Logitech Trackball: Close
[   200.193] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.193] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.300] (II) CNF7017: Close
[   200.300] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.300] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.406] (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
[   200.406] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.406] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.490] (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Close
[   200.490] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[   200.490] (II) Unloading evdev
[   200.490] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[   200.490] (II) fglrx(0): Backup framebuffer data.
[   200.572] (II) fglrx(0): Backup complete.
[   200.722] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

I'm using catalyst-hook version 11.12-1, and lspci reports:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]

If someone could help me that would be greatly appreciated, and if you need any more info, just let me know.  Thank you in advance.

David

Last edited by slackcub (2011-12-26 02:50:22)

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 705

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Re: [Solved] Catalyst seg fault when trying to play video

There is an issue with the latest xorg-server and the xv output. (This is probably specific to the Catalyst driver.)

You can either 1) downgrade to xorg-server 1.10.x, 2) configure your video players to use the gl output, or 3) switch to mplayer-vaapi and use the vaapi output.

Also read: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130570

slackcub

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Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 144

Re: [Solved] Catalyst seg fault when trying to play video

working now.  Switched to GLX.