vlc-0.2.80 and Linux 2.2.x kernels

Michael Flohr flohr at itp.uni-hannover.de
Thu Jun 14 11:37:46 CEST 2001


Bill Piety wrote:

> Yep - I'm using 0.2.80 with the original RH7 kernel. I had compiled the SDL
> rpm from source before compiling the prior vlc 0.2.73. Did nothing at all
> than d/l vlc 0.2.80, compile & install. I need no parameters at all - the
> default is SDL. Playback is fine, but then so was 0.2.73.

Hmm, so it sounds that it might not be a kernel problem after all.
To be more specific:
I have a 750 MHz Pentium III processor, 256 MByte RAM,
and a ATI rage 128 mobility LF (AGP 2x) graphics card.
I use XFree 4.0.1 and SDL 1.2, which I compiled myself.
The system is SuSE Linux 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16.

vlc-0.2.73 compiles and runs just fine,
vlc-0.2.80 compiles fine, but crashes when using
xvideo or SDL video output.
The error message is in both cases:
Gdk-ERROR **: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)
      serial 39 error_code 178 request_code 146 minor_code 2

So, might it be possible that xvideo and SDL support
are somehow broken in the new release, and that this
might be specific to my hardware or XFree version?
Or does it have something to do with sound? But why
would then '--vout x11' run without problems?

Michael






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