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  1. Bug #38939
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 38939

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Bartek (tschew) wrote :

Another solution is to set the "LinearAlloc" option in xorg.conf for the i810 driver to something very big. If you check "man i810" it gives 8160 as a value for 1080p videos, i find that it is insufficient, crashing even with 720p videos. At 16000 I haven't had any problems yet.

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Section "Device"
        Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Grap
        Driver "i810"
        Option "LinearAlloc" "16000" #STOP CRASHING XVIDEO
        BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
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