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Viruser

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] KDE crashes while playing a video after installing fglrx

Hello
I have installed latest fglrx 12.1 from amd website.
The problem is after install, I cannot open video files as KDE crashes as soon as i try to open them. I tried VLC and mplayer, both crash the whole kde at startup and kde restarts.
But they do work when i start mplayer with '-vo gl' switch.
I have tried reinstalling KDE but it didn't work.
Also i have tried uninstalling fglrx and videos play fine with open source driver.
Please tell me how i can provide more detailed information.
My system specs:
Core i7 860
AMD radeon 5850
4GiB ram

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Viruser (2012-03-01 19:25:32)

yaffare

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Registered: 2011-12-29

Posts: 71

Re: [SOLVED] KDE crashes while playing a video after installing fglrx

this is a known bug in fglrx. just change video output to something else than xv.

vlc: preferences -> video -> output -> e.g. opengl
smplayer: preferences -> general -> video -> output driver -> e.g. gl (fast)

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Viruser

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] KDE crashes while playing a video after installing fglrx

OK thanks.

radishfabio

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Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] KDE crashes while playing a video after installing fglrx

i solved all problems (for example skype webcam from incoming calls, mplayer, etc) by adding theese lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "XVideo" "Disable"
EndSection

p.s. sorry for my english bye