I emerged the new, stable xorg 7.1 packages, and found - rather dumbstruck - that I can't play videos. Mplayer and Totem both kill X upon starting a video stream. The output of the X server was basically of no use - it didn't state anything besides that it crashed due to an unhandled exception in the nvidia driver. I'm reinstalling xorg-server-1.0.1 right now, and will post the results.
Just as expected, no problems with Xorg 7.0. Also, Xorg 7.1 was SLOOOOW as hell in comparison. I think marking it stable was too early.
We can't fix nVidia drivers at all, and you didn't post any info to actually diagnose the problem. I have no problem with playing video in Xorg 7.1, reopen with some steps to reproduce, error message, emerge --info etc. etc. etc.
Okay, I experimented a bit, and found the exact steps to reproduce the error. Hardware: amd64, nVidia Quadro FX 4000 video Emerge >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.1* with any version of nvidia-driver In xorg.conf, in the Section of the video adapter, set: Option "Overlay" "true" (and of course load extmod, as that provides Xv) Now, try to use any Xv based output, like mplayer. The X server will instantly die. As this error wasn't present in earlier Xorg versions, it may be related to a bug in the nvidia drivers, but is basically an xorg-xserver bug. I also tried setting Option "XvMCUsesTextures" "true", which, according to the documentation, forces the use of the 3d accelerator for video overlay instead of the hardware overlay. It doesn't change a thing. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6.Daniel.Jozsef.20070112.02 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6.Daniel.Jozsef.20070112.02 x86_64 AMD Processor Model Unknown Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc 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wmp wv wxwindows x264 xanim xchattext xforms xml xml2 xorg xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid zip zlib zvbi" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
still not convinced it's not a configuration issue. You didn't state what versions of the nvidia-drivers you used were. Post your whole xorg.conf I've also never enabled Overlay on my system and it just works.
