← Back to team overview

desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[Bug 103839] Re: totem crashes entire machine, leaves black screen with garbage.

 

[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103839

Title:
  totem crashes entire machine, leaves black screen with garbage.

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: totem

  When playing anything (ogg/vorbis, wmv, mpeg, so far) totem is likely
  to crash on input. Loading a new file might do it. Resizing the window
  might do it. Clicking "pause" might do it. Then again, it might play
  20 files successfully before crashing.

  It seems to happen independent of format, or even if the media is
  audio or video.

  The result is that my screen goes black, except for some neon
  green/pink/whatever garbage around the corner of where the video
  window was. Whole computer will stay in this state, frozen to any
  input, until I hard-reboot.

  Perhaps worth noting that I also am experiencing the line that runs
  across the screen, from the top of the movie square. This line also
  occurs in the mozilla-plugin.

  I'm on a Toshiba Satellite 1400, with a Trident Microsystems
  CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82). I've done some reading, and while it looks
  like the linux driver for the CyberBlade doesn't yet support 3D, it
  should be stable.

  I worry about the driver, though -- when I used Xine with a different
  set of codecs (on my last ubuntu install on this machine [5.10 I
  think]) I experienced similar symptoms.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/103839/+subscriptions