Screen (not the video) flickers while Totem loads

[Simson]

Binary package hint: totem

If I start Totem Movie Player in Ubuntu Jaunty RC, the Totem window opens but isn't ready immedietely. The entire screen flickers, XOrg causes 100 % CPU load for about 10 or more seconds and the Ubuntu is very sluggish. After that, the player runs as expected, plays video files etc.

System:
Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope 64 Bit Release Candidate
AMD Athlon X2 4200+
ATI HD 3850 (with fglrx drivers from the repo)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: totem 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's more like a video drivers issue rather than a bug in totem.

[Simson (marcel-simon)]

Thanks for the hint.

I figured out that this problem doesn't only occur when totem loads, but on startup of several other apps too, especially when using wine.
Now I updated the fglrx drivers to version 9.4. Since the update, the flickering only occurs for several 100 ms.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Tanks in advance.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!