vlc Gdk-ERROR after upgrade to XFree86 4.0.2

[Arnaud de Bossoreille de Ribou]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001, Kevin Murphy wrote:
> I seem to have broken my previously working vlc.  Vlc
> formerly worked well for me (using 4.0.1, SDL 1.0.8,
> and Nvidia's 0.9-6 drivers, I think), but with lower
> framerates because it was running without YUV
> acceleration.  Tonight I finally got around to
> updating to xfree86 4.0.2, to deal with the YUV issue
> that others mentioned recently.  
> 
> Vlc starts fine.  After I try to load a disc, but
> before the disc begins to play, it crashes with this
> error:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
> operation)
>   serial 35 error_code 11 request_code 142 minor_code
> 19

Hi Kevin,

this bug is due to the NVidia drivers <= 0.9-6 when you're in high resolution.

if you upgrade your NVidia drivers to 0.9-769, it won't crash any more but you
won't be able to watch to video in high resolution.

extract from NVidia's README:

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- Fixed problem on TNT and TNT2 where Xv(Shm)PutImage returned BadAlloc in
  high resolutions when there was not enough video bandwidth to display
  the YUV video overlay correctly. This works now but the resulting
  display has artifacts.

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So to watch some video you have to lower your resolution, it works both with
0.9-6 and 0.9-769 except that it doesn't crash lamentably in high resolution.

Regards,

-- 
Arnaud.