[i965gm] X reliably crashes when trying to play this video

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Ubuntu 9.04, MacBook rev E (early 2008)

1. Download <http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/ubuntu-uploads.ogv>.
2. Open the movie.

What happens: X crashes.
What should happen: The movie should play.

The same problem does not happen for other movies, e.g. <http://video.ubuntu.com/uds/jaunty/notifications.ogv>.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-11-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:57:48 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

Current Operating System: Linux mpt-ubuntu 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:57:48 UTC 2009 i686

You are using the Intrepid kernel, which does not have GEM. The fake bufmgr which you get instead of GEM is too small to play video. If you want to play video, you will need to use the jaunty kernel.
Can you please boot with the jaunty kernel, 2.6.28-11-generic, and let us know if that works ok?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I had no idea my Ubuntu installation was still using the 2.6.27 kernel after I upgraded to 9.04. I have now started using the 2.6.28 kernel, and the problem no longer occurs. Thanks for the quick diagnosis.