Repeatable X lockups

[Jimmie James]

Jimmie James wrote:
>> When using the xv output driver for vlc or mplayer, X will lockup, crash 
>> instantly, trashing the screen and forcing a reboot
>> Image of screen corruption: 
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jimmiejaz/xcrash.jpg

William Bulley wrote:
>I have experienced the same problem, but I didn't see any suggestions
>or answers to your posting.  Have you had any success yet with this?
>Have you tried any other output drivers?  This is something I plan to
>try in the next few days.

>My system is i386 with Intel 915 graphics on the motherboard.  Xorg 7.4
>runs fine.  When I run mplayer from the command line, in an xterm under
>open-motif, the X Windows session dies and I am tossed back to the vty.



Halp?  The x11 output driver sucks when trying to watch something full 
screen.

With the latest (in ports) xf86-video-intel-2.7.1, first time with xv it 
was fine, flipped to a console then back to X, and ran mplayer with xv, 
lockup/Xcrash,
ssh'd into my box, and for the hell of it, ran startx, and it worked, I 
was back in X, but the console was still buggered as the picture in the 
link above shows.
I could kill X, but the console was buggered, locked, ssh would allow me 
to restart X as many times as I wished.

All that's in /var/log/messages is  May 13 11:19:35 jimmiejaz kernel: 
pid 65663 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6
Unfortunatly, Xorg log doesn't have anything, as I restarted X over ssh 
several times, the only thing there, is when trying to startx a lot of 
times, the first attempt can't find any screens with a usable 
configuration, ^c then startx again works just fine.

(WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1
(II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xc5819000 at 0x2884f000
(II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.



xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1600
VGA connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
306mm x 230mm
    1600x1200      65.0*

vgapci0 at pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x25821043 chip=0x25828086 
rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
     device     = '82915G/GV/GL, 82910GL Integrated Graphics Device'
     class      = display
     subclass   = VGA

grep vga /var/run/dmesg.boot
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x6800-0x6807 mem 
0xcfd80000-0xcfdfffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xcfe80000-0xcfebffff at 
device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 82915G (915G GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
drm0: <Intel i915G> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xcfe00000-0xcfe7ffff at device 
2.1 on pci0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x6800-0x6807 mem 
0xcfd80000-0xcfdfffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xcfe80000-0xcfebffff at 
device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 82915G (915G GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
drm0: <Intel i915G> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xcfe00000-0xcfe7ffff at device 
2.1 on pci0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0



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