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[Russell Ault <russell.ault@xxxxxxxx>]

I was getting this error on a clean install of Kubuntu Jaunty on a
ThinkCentre with an Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics
Controller (rev 02) with 32MB VRAM (maxed out in BIOS) with a single
monitor running at 1680x1050. Dragon played back audio but with a solid
blue block in place of the XVideo overlay, while VLC and the xine-ui
simply exited with BadAlloc errors. I followed cleggton's instructions
in post 18 above to revert back to Intel driver version 2.4 and the
problem disappeared. Any idea what changed in the driver that would
cause this problem?

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[i945gm] all video players crash with BadAlloc error (no Compiz, Xv) if Virtual width > 2048.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359831
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: In Progress
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

xine, mplayer, or totem all crash when attempting to play any video file with an error like this one from xine:
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.6cvs.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  132 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  4731
  Current serial number in output stream:  4732

This worked in Intrepid and does not work since updating to the Jaunty beta this morning. I noticed it removing the xserver-xorg-video-i810 package and I can see other similar bugs saying that this has been deprecated in favor of xserver-xorg-video-intel.

mplayer -vo x11 file.avi works, so it seems very likely this is an xvideo problem.

One oddity: at first, 'mplayer file.avi' crashed immediately. After trying to run it and other video players a few times, now it opens a black window, plays the audio, and spams "X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)" to console. I didn't change any settings (cross my heart), I was just hitting up and rerunning the last couple attempts to show someone in the room.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386, x86_64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 8 04:38:53 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
    	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
    	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]