Xorg crash on VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700/VX700

[Heikki Suonsivu]

Using a VIA cpu&chipset based computer. VLC and mplayer both crash when video starts playing. I took the edge drivers but did not see much improvement (now I seem to get few video frames before crash). Going to full screen mode triggers it immediately, window video shows few frames and then X crashes.

I can send this computer if you need a platform to test the hardware, I have extra units (it is eBOX 486x series one).

I have seen video working on this this hardware earlier, few years ago, on Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Mon Jul 4 16:14:32 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700/VX700 [S3 UniChrome Pro] [1106:3157] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Device [0908:1975]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 18a5:0300 Verbatim, Ltd
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:en
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=41e5c9de-9e0a-458d-8e08-1398c63eac49 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg crash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/07/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080014
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.vendor: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080014:bd04/07/2008:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26+git20110604.6dd804c5-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.12.0~git20110630.0edb40cb-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.12.0~git20110630.0edb40cb-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99+git20110623.9bb31158-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0+git20110702.98f2e385-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110623.ab89aa02-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

THis bug is similar to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/760743

[Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo)]

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 760743, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.