When I play video using XV (via mplayer), sometimes X crashes, corrupting my screen and making my keyboard unusable. Restarting X via ssh fails with: Fatal server error: Active ring not flushed This occurs both with xfree-4.2.1-r2, and xfree-4.3.0-r2 (with updated drivers from dri.sf.net) This happens frequently, but not on every usage of XV. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play video with mplayer -nofs Actual Results: Sometimes it works. Other times, the video window goes blue, followed shortly with the entire screen displaying a staticky pattern. Expected Results: It should not have crashed. Logs will be attached once the bug is filed, along with configuration Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex svga java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python esd imlib qt motif opengl mozilla cdr -arts mysql cups tcltk X gtk -gnome alsa kde crypt emacs encode ipv6 mmx oggvorbis perl truetype zlib apache2 mng" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Created attachment 16821 [details] /etc/X11/XF86Config
Created attachment 16822 [details] Log of the session where X crashed during xv playback
Created attachment 16823 [details] Log of session where X crashed Wrong log file - this is the correct one
Created attachment 16824 [details] Log of attempt to restart X
Created attachment 16826 [details] Output of lspci -vv
This appears to be connected with strange artefacts that sometimes appear flickering down mplayer xv playbacks - blue or green blocks and lines flickering down the scren usually. Restarting X stops these artefacts. This usually results in a crash when I do some sort of other activity in a windowed xv playback, or when the screensaver activates, which makes me suspect a race condition. In addition, by running 'mode3' from svgalib, I can get a text console, but X still refuses to restart, with "active ring not flushed".
Have you tried installing x11-base/xfree-drm for your i810 card? If not could you please try drmfrom this package over the drm in the kernel and attach results.
I'm using: xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1 I also see strange artifacts appear sometimes, flickering down mplayer xv playbacks - but only green blocks and lines flickering down the scren usually. Switching to framebuffer and playing using -vo fbdev2 shows me that there's nothing wrong with my media files. Previous reporter mentions "Restarting X stops these artefacts." I'm not sure this is the case for me. I've crashed at least once, but often I just stop abort mplayer (also VLC) when I see the green artifacts, and reboot. Usually stuff works again. So here I think we can conclude it's something to do with i810, X and/or kernel. It's not specific to mplayer. I've disabled Xscreensaver for now, as I use my laptop for watching movies often, so I haven't crashed due to that, and haven't done more than one XV playback at a time for now, that I remember. For me also: This happens frequently, but not on every usage of XV. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play video with 'mplayer' or 'vlc', at least with files sized 50Mb and up.. Actual Results: Sometimes it works without any problem. Other times, the video window goes green (not blue as previous reporter mentions). I do get weird blocky patterns, usually in the bottom of the video output in X - the entire screen displaying perhaps a "staticky pattern", as previous reporter mentions. Expected Results: Less green blocky patterns while watching encoded video files. Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r5) And from /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http:// mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" USE="-java -svga -offensive distcc ipv6 jack oci8 gtk2 sasl maildir portaudio dv dr cdr monkey directfb speex faad faac dvd matroska jikes nas wifi fbcon imap ss l perl sse mmx x86 zlib xvid usb theora oss truetype spell readline quicktime nl s ldap mad flac cups dga audiofile avi alsa acpi apm aalib crypt ncurses slang t hreads" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" VIDEO_CARDS="intel8x0" P.s. I can supply Xorg.log if need be. Just ask for more detail. Thanks in advance. I haven't tried another DRM, because I don't know if that exists/makes sense, at this point. P.P.s. I asked someone on #mplayer and he told me it was likely something to do with X and/or my video card.
If you can reproduce with >=6.8.99.15, please reopen.
