[xine-user] xine crashes my x server

[Dave P. <dl...@br...>]

Greetings:

  I'm new to the xine list, but I did some checking in the archives and
on Google before sending this post. While I did find some relevant
messages, none of the suggested solutions worked or were viable. Here's
the rundown on what's happening for me.

  First, here's the gear and software summary :

	800 MHz AMD Duron
	512 MB memory
	15 GB hard-disk
	Liteon DVD drive
	nVidia GForce2 w. 64 MB video memory

	xine-lib-1-beta12
	xine-ui-0.9.20

	XFree86 4.1.0 (w. nVidia's driver)
	Linux kernel 2.4.18 w. low-latency patch
	BlackBox window manager (not sure of version, maybe 0.60 ?)

  And here's what happens: xine performs beautifully, it plays
everything I've thrown at it so far, with the exception of obviously
defective media. My congratulations to the development team, they've
done a fantastic job. However, with a short time after closing xine my X
server goes to hell and I get dumped back to the console. Very annoying.
Now, given the gear/software listed above, can anyone suggest what's
going wrong here ?

  I should also mention that I'm finishing an article for the Linux
Journal that covers the current state of DVD players under Linux. I'm
reviewing Ogle, MPlayer, VideoLAN Client, and of course xine. I'm also
writing the xine tutorial for the AGNULA project (www.agnula.org), a
Linux multimedia distribution. It would be nice to not have to mention
this problem, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm quite willing to try
them. I've already heard that exiting xine via Ctrl-x would stop the
segfault, but it didn't. I've also assumed that the GForce has enough
on-board memory, but if I'm mistaken I cannot at this time purchase a
new card. Sorry about that...

  Many thanks in advance !

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips

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