Version: (using KDE 4.0.0) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux Watching videos with command line mplayer in KDE 4.0.1 causes X.org to crash. Apparently this happens only with video (playing audio only files works fine). I have tried opening many different kinds of video files with different codecs with mplayer, and the each time the following happens: - mplayer seems to load the video correctly without complaining about anything - a video window (with black inside it) appears on the desktop - after this X.org immediately crashes and restarts Other players like VLC and Kaffeine seem to play videos without any problems, so I'm not sure if this is a KDE or an mplayer bug. However, mplayer works fine in KDE 3.5.8, so this is probably some kind of compatibility issue. I have compositing features of KWin enabled. My mplayer version is dev-SVN-r25189-4.1.3 (self compiled). I have two displays and the configuration is managed by NVidia's TwinView. Here's a backtrace from the end of Xorg.log: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c95d1] 1: [0xffffe420] 2: /usr/bin/X [0x817e4ad] 3: /usr/bin/X [0x817aaff] 4: /usr/bin/X(CompositeGlyphs+0x9a) [0x81613aa] 5: /usr/bin/X [0x8169029] 6: /usr/bin/X [0x8164425] 7: /usr/bin/X [0x815765e] 8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x1aa) [0x808f47a] 9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x495) [0x8076f05] 10: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7d79050] 11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x8076241] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting
I have the same problem with (KDE 3.5.5 "release 45.8" , openSUSE 10.2) Linux (i686) release 2.6.18.8-0.9-default Compiler Target: i586-suse-linux Playing a video with xine, noatun, kaffeine or mplayer, sometimes crash X, kill all programs and goes to the kdm login screen. I have an ATI Radeon X1300 128Mb with the official ATI display driver version 8.45.4. Regards Oscar
KDE does not develop the X server.
...I tried also VLC. And my player just closed with message about bad memory allocation in X... without crashing a system. When I turned off the SHADOWS and TRANSPARENCY in personal settings my video players working again.