Subject: Re: another thing that works under 2.0 but not -current
To: Jaka Jejcic <jj@gnorw.net>
From: Lars Nordlund <lars.nordlund@hem.utfors.se>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/02/2005 23:12:01
Wed 2005-02-02 klockan 16:19 +0100 skrev Jaka Jejcic:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:46:06AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > mplayer.
> > 
> > X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
> > 
> > MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode_video
> > 
> > the only difference is the kernel, 2.0 works, -current doesn't.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this happens to me every time mplayer does not
> have enough physical memory to assign. So, closing firefox or another
> greedy app helps. But it is not mac specific ... I run NetBSD/i386-current
> and have this same situations every day. Hence I'm forwarding this to
> current-users.

I think this is an X server bug/limitation. See this page as reference:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126307

from URL above:
<keithp> thomasvs: oh, that's just broken video drivers.
<keithp> thomasvs: lame allocators that can't migrate pixmaps from
video memory to system memory to make space for the Xv buffer.



Best regards
	Lars Nordlund