Re: [xine-user] gray window

[Magnus L. <mag...@ra...>]

tor...@st... said:
> > kernel and 256 MB RAM. The problem shows only when X has been running for some 
> > hours. After restarting X, the xawtv picture is back again. Now that I think 
> 
> here, the problem always shows.

Great! That will make it easier to debug ...I hope :)

> > >From what I recall, I did not have this problem before I upgraded to nvidias 
> > latest drivers (1.0.2313/1.0.2314). With version 1.0.1541 of the nvidia 
> 
> i've been running 2.4.16-k7 and 1.0.2313/4 since before christmas, and
> never had the problem until i upgraded to xine 0.9.8. it might have been
> some other package that was upgraded during an apt-get, the only thing i
> know for sure is that the previous version worked, and the new one
> doesn't. i just tried mplayer as well, and for some reason it works
> well, but avifile-player still doesn't.

Are you using the Xvideo output plugin (-VXv)? Does the problem persist if you 
try the XShm output plugin (-VXShm)? If I get the "grey window" problem when I 
get home tonight, I will try the XShm plugin to see if the problems could be 
Xvideo related.

> 
> > I guess this would indicate that something happened in the nvidia driver 
> > between the two releases.
> 
> i haven't had any other version of the nvidia drivers installed, but
> perhaps the new drivers really is the problem, and that they've just
> been nice to me for a while or something.. :)

It wouldn't be the first time an Athlon/Duron system appeared to behave 
inconsistently :( Computers are supposed to be consistent. If not, there is 
IMHO generally a software bug or flawed harware somewhere in the system.

> 
> > ...OR the weird things started when I began feeding the mem=nopentium option 
> > to kernel about a week ago. After all, I have been running lk 2.4.17 with 
> 
> actually, that's about the same time i started feeding mem=nopentium as
> well, and also about the same time i upgraded xine. i tried removing the
> mem=nopentium line and rebooted ten minutes ago though, and xine still
> comes up with it's gray window..
> 

OK, so it's possible that mem=nopentium only makes a hidden problem visible on 
my system. Sounds reasonable since, AFAIK, disabling 4MB pages should only 
adversely affect performance.

I'll try downgrading to nvidia drivers 1.0.1541, but even the result from that 
operation may not be conclusive. The lurking problem might not show up in 
xawtv anymore, but somewhere else instead :(

Does anyone have any ideas on how to hunt this critter down?

> best regards
> torgeir
> 

/Magnus