[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main mplayer.c,1.527,1.528

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:59:09AM +0200, pl wrote:
> > > Your patch suffer from initialization problems as "impossible" values
> > > (-101) arrive in vo_xv::__set*eq, which causes problems.
> > Xv drivers should ignore values <min or >max, at least the mga Xv does so.
> 
> They should but we might want to avoid relying too much on other
> people's code :)

The code that makes it possible to lock up the system is what's at
fault -- in this case, the X server which has the elevated privileges.
The driver should be fixed, and in the meantime users with such buggy
X servers should disable acceleration. :)

Rich