Video Players (VLC, mplayer, totem, etc.) Crash with BadAlloc Error

[Jeff Starling]

This is on a new installation of Feisty. All of the video players mentioned fail with an 'X error':
BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

I am nearly certain that my videos were playing after the install. (It was a clean install.)

Video card is a Matrox Millennium G450 Dual Head LX (AGP).

Seems related to bugs #111257 and #39050, but I'm not using intel video or compiz.

I have not made any manual modifications to the xorg config file, and the only recent changes to the system were the installation of some KDE apps via Synaptic.

[Jeff Starling (jeff-cheeber)]

Attached are the errors from command line execution of the video players.

[Jeff Starling (jeff-cheeber)]

I should also add that this video card has been working fine for me in breezy, dapper, and edgy.

[Wousser (wousser)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug [see link] and is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any information missing that you can add or to see if there is a work around. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=BadAlloc&search=Search+Bug+Reports&field.scope=all&field.scope.target=

[Wousser (wousser)]

Dont mind my previous comment.
I will mark this bug as a duplicate of #111257 because its a bug in xv or xorg. As far as I can see it has nothing to do with intel or compiz.
please reopen it if you think it's not the same bug.
Thanks

[Jeff Starling (jeff-cheeber)]

It's pretty similar, but I don't think this is the same bug. All of the comments in bug 111257 refer to intel cards and the intel drivers. I'm running a Matrox Millennium G450 Dual Head LX (which means the mga driver, I believe).

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Could you please recheck it with Gutsy Final Live CD? If it doesn't work please post some more information like xorg.conf and the output from lspci.

[wolfger (wolfger)]

5 months with no reply. 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!