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Phrost5019

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Registered: 2015-02-20

Posts: 32

xfce4 and kde plasma 5 crash when playing video

I have xfce4 running at the moment with the latest fglrx catalyst drivers from the unofficial catalyst repository by Vi0L0. Every once in a while while streaming video on youtube or playing local video on vlc or kodi the screen will freeze. Audio may play for a little bit but I'll end up having to reboot. The problem seems to increase in frequency while playing video on both monitors. I read a bug report somewhere that said it was a bug with fglrx and I needed to switch video outbut to something other than xv output. This is straightforward enough with vlc but I can't find an option for that in firefox or kodi. Is there anything I can do for this?

Some details on the system:

Xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "0-DFP6"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "1920 0"
	Option	    "Rotate" "normal"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "0-DFP7"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "0 0"
	Option	    "Rotate" "normal"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "Monitor-DFP6" "0-DFP6"
	Option	    "Monitor-DFP7" "0-DFP7"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#	Screen      1
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

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Linux saturn 4.4.1-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 3 13:12:33 UTC 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Docbroke

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From: India

Registered: 2015-06-13

Posts: 1,475

Re: xfce4 and kde plasma 5 crash when playing video

Same as in your previous thread I would still suggest to go with opensource "xf86-video-ati", unless it fails there is no need for catalyst.

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Phrost5019

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Registered: 2015-02-20

Posts: 32

Re: xfce4 and kde plasma 5 crash when playing video

Same as in your previous thread I would still suggest to go with opensource "xf86-video-ati", unless it fails there is no need for catalyst.

I would use open source video drivers but the performance they offer is not enough for my needs.

Phrost5019

Member

Registered: 2015-02-20

Posts: 32

Re: xfce4 and kde plasma 5 crash when playing video

Same as in your previous thread I would still suggest to go with opensource "xf86-video-ati", unless it fails there is no need for catalyst.

I decided to give open source drivers a try after having so much grief with catalyst drivers and I was actually very surprised with the amount of power they offer. I tried them a little while back and they were not very good at all with 3d rendering, but they seem to have improved very much. Thank you for the suggestion!