vlc bug report

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 06 August 2001 10:54 pm, Joshua M. Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Jeremy Bailin illustriously signified the following:
> 
> > >    An unexpected async reply error is basically a segfault which has
> > > been trapped by a thread in an X call. It doesn't mean the segfault is
> > > related to X, though. gdb is probably the only way to track the cause.
> >
> > Since that was also on an Inspiron 4000, and my unexpected asyncs were
> > also on an I4000, I'd guess that's more than a coincidence. Are there
> > other laptops that use the Rage 128 Mobility chip, and if so do they
> > experience it too? Anyone know?
> 
> Been getting the same error on an I3800 as well when trying to use xvideo.
> The 3800 has the Rage 128 chip.
> 

I've got a Rage 3D mobility (ATI Mach64) with the gatos driver installed. 
I've got the same problem which happens both with the xvideo and sdl (overlay 
mode) plugins. Sometimes it even crashes my computer, and the "Magic SysRq 
key" to reboot the kernel doesn't even work. It really looks like a driver 
bug in my case.

But are you using the latest cvs version of vlc? a few xvideo related bugs 
have been fixed since the latest release.

--
Gildas