vlc Gdk-ERROR after upgrade to XFree86 4.0.2

[Kevin Murphy]

 You are right, of course.  Works great in lower
resolutions.  Thanks very much.

Kevin

Thanks very much.
--- Arnaud de Bossoreille de Ribou <bozo at via.ecp.fr>
wrote:
> 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:
> 
> -----
> 
> - 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.
> 
> -----
> 
> 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.
> 
> 


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