[i945] [Jaunty] video players with XVideo output crashes after recent update to xorg packages

[mrcoleslaw]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Since the update of xserver packages last week(16-20 March 2009), MPlayer and VLC player crash upon any attempt playing video files. Both Mplayer and VLC are output to X11/XVideo(default) for video output. Both doesn't crash and would play properly if one switch to X11(XImage/Shm) for output.

Hardware is a Lenovo S10, lspci -vvv output:
...
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3870
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Region 0: Memory at f0580000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
...

The very last few lines of the Xorg.0.log after a crash with VLC or MPlayer:
...
350 382 385 445 +hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz)
exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty!
[ 1031.418510] (EE) intel(0): Failed to pin xv buffer

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Thank you for testing the development version of Ubuntu and reporting this bug. Could you please attach the full Xorg.0.log from when this happens and the full output of `lspci -vvnn` (this includes some PCI ID numbers not included in your `lspci -vvv` output above).

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Are you using the 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu2 version? If you still have the old 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu1 version in your /var/cache/apt/archives, please try installing it.

I also noticed this in your log:
(EE) intel(0): Cannot support DRI with frame buffer width > 2048.
which not necessarily is related, but something that needs fixing as well.

[Alexey Balmashnov (a.balmashnov)]

Looks like I observe the same problem. I can add, that the first run crashes x-server, when x-server gets running again, I can run the very same movie file without any problem.

[mrcoleslaw (mrcoleslaw)]

OK I tried these:

2:2.6.3-0ubuntu1 -crashes
2:2.6.1-1ubuntu4 -works

I recall reading somewhere either this driver or hardware was broken for width > 2048 when looking around some issue when I tried Compiz(I revert to Metacity for multiple users logged in concurrently) don't remember where it was.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Yes, there are issues when the frame buffer width > 2048. But I do not understand why it should be that wide in your case, since the two connected screens both come up in 800x600. But this is off-topic :)

This bug sounds related to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20585 which was fixed by -intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu2. How does this version perform?

[mrcoleslaw (mrcoleslaw)]

No, it doesn't. 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu2 is exactly the version reported against.

frame buffer wide > 2048 is trial and error I did to get my external monitor only setup showing all available resolution in display preference, I am pretty ignorant on proper X setup so it could be bad workaround from me.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

You can try xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.6.3-0ubuntu3~tormod2 from my PPA https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ppa or even the 2:2.6.99.1+git20090327.69c84f2c-0ubuntu0tormod from the xorg-edgers PPA https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa to see if it has been fixed upstream.

[mrcoleslaw (mrcoleslaw)]

Your PPA still crashes

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

With frame buffer > 2048, DRI is disabled, and that's what triggers this bug. It seems to be a dupe, and we have a proposed fix. :-)