Watching videos in Totem, Mplayer, or Kaffeine crashes X

[joehill]

I'm using the intel i810 driver and an Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics controller and an updated Dapper. Probably around 25% of the time, when I try to watch a video (.avi, DVD, .wmv, etc.) on totem, mplayer, or kaffeine, I get a BSOD (black screen of death, where I'll see the "wait" cursor periodically but nothing is responsive, including ssh from another computer). If I restart, I can usually watch the same video without problems, and I've found no consistent pattern for when it does this. I've had this problem since Breezy.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Punting to xserver-xorg-driver-i810 based on user comments.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

joehill:

Can you add the output of the
dpkg -l xserver-xorg-driver-i810
command?

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

(might be cured by fixes mentioned in Bug #28326)

[joehill (joseph-hill)]

Punt sustained. Thanks for pointing me to the other bug--I'll try it out, and maybe this should be marked duplicate? Looks similar. Ok, here's the output of dpkg -l xserver-xorg-driver-i810:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii xserver-xorg-driver-i810 1.4.1.3-0ubuntu3 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver

[Zack Cerza (zcerza-deactivatedaccount)]

isn't this a dupe of but #28326?

[Angelo Lisco (angystardust-gmail)]

Yes...it's definitly a dupe of #28326!
However, X crashes only when launching a video player after a suspend-resume cycle, right?

[joehill (joseph-hill)]

Hmm, good question. Although I haven't noticed that it doesn't happen before suspend, 90% of the time I'm working in a post-hibernation state (since I hibernate often and reboot infrequently), so this could be the case. I need to pay attention to this to verify now that you point it out though.