[MPlayer-users] Problem playing certain files through xv

[Giacomo Comes]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:23:00PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 01 January 2007 at 14:29, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> > >> > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 95%
> > >>
> > >> Obviously the problem.  It's unfortunate that MPlayer crashes instead of
> > >> exiting properly, but you really can't expect MPlayer to be able to
> > >> exceed the limitations of your video hardware (or workaround driver or
> > >> X11 bugs if that is the case here).
> > >>
> > >> > Intel 855 with up to 64MB of shared memory
> > >> > dri enabled
> > >>
> > >> If you have it set to only use a small ammount of shared video memory,
> > >> you can try increasing it in the BIOS.
> > >
> > >It's not a BIOS issue.
> > >Read man i810.
> > 
> > I actually did that yesterday, but it seems like my xorg.conf file is
> > correct. I have this info in it...
> > 
> > Section "Device"
> >    Identifier  "Intel"
> >    Driver      "i810"
> >    Option      "VideoRam"      "65536"
> > EndSection
> 
> *sigh*
> 
>        Option "LinearAlloc" "integer"
>               Allows  more  memory  for  the offscreen allocator. This usually
>               helps in situations where HDTV movies are required to  play  but
>               not  enough  offscreen  memory is usually available. Set this to
>               6144 for upto 1920x1080 HDTV support.  Default 0KB (off).
> 

Such option exists only since xorg 7.1. I may well happen that not everibody
has the latest xorg release. For example suse 10.1 still has X 6.9.

Ciao.
Giacomo