[Mplayer-advusers] Re: mplayer still crashes with -fs

[Diego Biurrun]

Greg Stark writes:
 > > Beside you said that it's getting worse, but the x11
 > > code wasn't touched for a damn long time, so i either
 > > suspect that something with your x server is broken or you
 > > use a non-aproved binary version of mplayer.
 > 
 > I'm not sure how my x server could be broken. I am running a prerelease
 > package of X 4.3 packages. But I the issues holding up X 4.3 in debian are
 > things like xdm scripts and non-x86 compiles, not weird bugs in X. As far as I
 > know X 4.3 doesn't have any weird behaviour with windows suddenly becoming
 > invalid windows or xlib calls having buggy parameter checking.

MPlayer makes the X server on my notebook (Debian testing) crash
sometimes.  I'm running the experimental Debian 4.3 packages.  I used
4.2.1 from testing before, MPlayer made that one crash as well, though
slightly less often.  I suspect a driver bug, chips + technologies is
not a very common chipset I suppose and my home machine is rock solid.

 > I compile mplayer from CVS. It seems unlikely a compiler bug could cause an
 > xlib error. In any case I've compiled it with -O0 (where possible, avcodec and
 > some other files don't compile without optimization), so it's unlikely any
 > compiler bugs would be causing problems.

lol

It doesn't compile _without_ optimizations :)  Probably nobody ever
tried to do such a thing..

Diego