[MPlayer-users] vesa:vidix on my radeon is freezing my system quite frequently

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, Brian!

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:43:51 -0500 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:12:29PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > Hello, Brian!
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> Before I start responding, where can I get your PGP/GPG key?  It does
> not seem to be listed in the keyservers.  Each time I open a mail from
> you, my MUA pauses while it tries to fetch the key.  If it were in my
> keyring, I would not have this pause.
> 
biew.sf.net
> > kernel
> 
> OK, but like I said, the freeze can come on in as little as a few
> minutes or 30-40.  This kind of wild fluctuation does not sound like a
> kernel memory leak to me.
> 
> > When you use mplayeer then you use other parts of kernel (vm86 for example)
> 
> The machine I am using mplayer on does nothing other than build
> mplayer and play it, so if it's not mplaying, it's idle.
> 
> > Therefore - kernel hangs (or its drivers).
> 
> Right.
> 
> > Radeon driver can't be a problem since it doesn't use anything except video registers.
> 
> As long as one is unable to hang the machine (or put it's resources in
> a deadlock, etc.) by tickling registers.  The Radeon video card would
> not be the first card to lock up a machine by having it's registers
> tickled in the wrong way.
> 
> > But if your problem is reproducable then try the same with vo null as experiment.
> 
> I did.  Played a full hour long video with no hang.  I have just
> started what is supposed to be a 3 hour video.  My bet is that it will
> finish.
> 
> > And the last, try:
> > --disable-sse
> 
> My current mplayer binary was built with --disable-sse.
> 
> > downgrade binutils and ld
> > upgrade kernel (there was fixed memory leak in ppp driver and something other ;)
> 
> But if it plays fine with vo null, does this not eliminate the ld and
> kernel from being the problem?
vo null doesn't use vm86 in kernel against vo_vesa - so it's not test for you.
> 
> b.
> 
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Best regards! Nick

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