Strange problem with KDE/X/Totem

[Jim Cornette]

Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>
>>>>
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>>> Installed Xine also, since you said it was working excelent at your 
>>> computer.... But guess....
>>> Same problem as with Totem or the mplayer plugin for firefox. As soon 
>>> as it is trying to play a movie. X & KDE shuts down.
>>>
>>> THT
>>>
>> I'll try xine later using KDE to see if GNOME/KDE differences might be 
>> the reason for your failure with video.
>> I cannot verify the reaction of totem. I could not get it to recognize 
>> my dvd without changes.
>> Jim
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2556
>>
> Hi again,
> 
> I tried to install gnome also today.
> I have now tryed all players for both avi & mpeg with different movies 
> under both KDE & Gnome.
> All of them shuts down my X-server. Which log files can I look in to 
> find some errors?
> 
> THT
> 

When your X server is shutdown, you want to check /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
before you try to restart X again. This file records the sessions and is 
overwritten when X starts up again.

/var/log/messages shows details of system processes and pretty much 
records activities on your system.

typing dmesg should show what recently happened on your system.

My diagnosis regarding the problem is that the radeon driver is fouled 
up and cannot direct render properly. The system then tries this another 
way and runs off to crashing X land.

I added the zip file containing the dri (still "borken") and the drivers 
for ati and radeon. This hack works and I can run xfce (used to black 
screen and lockup) Change to and from virtual terminals and do not have 
crashes. Also I am not using option "NoAccel", it is not needed. I'm 
booting in runlevel 3 and using startx. Tuxracer is slow, but does not 
black screen as it did with the drivers in the rpm.

Jim


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