gmplayer not doing what it should: playing... / gstreamer related resets X -> Related to desktopeffects!!

[Mads Kiilerich]

Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>>> should i file this also in bugzilla for fedora?? where? is this a
>>>> kernelbug? am i the only concerned? If i am not wrong, this should
>>>> concern lots of ati radeon-users!
>>>>         
>>> *argh* i disabled now desktopeffects, then it works. so there seems to
>>> be an incompability between mplayer/gstreamer and compiz???
>>>       
>> As I wrote in your RPMFusion bug report, MPlayer shouldn't be able to
>> crash the Xserver. If it does, it usually means it triggered some bug
>> in either the Xserver or radeon driver, or perhaps its kernel part.
>>     
> as i wrote above, since i deactivated desktopeffects (wobbling windows etc - i think
> this is compiz) it works.
>
> so it seems to be a bug in compiz or the other way, because the effects (resetting X,
> not playing movies) just come with desktopeffects activated.
>
> still my question: am i the only with that error? do others not have this problem? if
> no, this could perhaps just be related to compiz on ati radeon.
>   

No, you are not the only one. But bug reports with non-fedora stuff 
might get low priority. And I think the X/graphics guys are very busy at 
the moment.

FWIW I have the following open radeon-related bugs which might be 
related to your problem:
Bug 465760 - modeset kernel: [drm:radeon_mem_init_heap] *ERROR* heap 
already initialized?
Bug 468393 - glxgears can't be hidden when Desktop Effects are enabled
Bug 467429 - Resume on radeon doesn't work with modeset in runlevel 3
Bug 468975 - System hanging on (II) RADEON(0): [RESUME] Attempting to 
re-init Radeon hardware.

/Mads