On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 13:49 -0500, Andrew Barr wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 12:53 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > Regardless I unable to run mplayer (or Realplayer) for that matter > > without the display first freezing then going black followed by garbage > > along the bottom of the screen. A Control-Alt-Backspace does not stop X > > from running. The only way to recover the machine from this point is to > > reboot the system. I am still able to connect from a remote system, its > > just the display that has become unstable. > > This is a known bug with the Xvideo textured video extension which was > fixed in the i810 X11 driver git tree. It hasn't been pushed to release > yet and most distros haven't picked up the fix. If I were you I'd file a > bug with Redhat. There's a bug on freedesktop.org that should detail the > issue and the fix. Also there was a thread on the xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list titled "i965 textured video crash" that discussed the issue and it's eventual resolution in detail. HTH, Andrew
