Lucid: Video apps crash after loading a video to play

Have a Dell Latitude X300 with Intel video (Intel Extreme 2 Graphics, 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device, using the i915 driver) loaded with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS . Did the modeset fix to fix video in Lucid, then disabled Plymouth.

Video, several weeks after install, now fails; when a file to play is loaded, every video app (VLC 1.06 Goldeneye, totem 2.30.2, GNOME
Mplayer 0.9.9.2-1) crashes after sensing the nature of the file.
Removed video apps with sudo apt-get remove avidemux-plugins-common*
avidemux-plugins-gtk* gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg* gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-dbg* gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse* gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad- multiverse-dbg* gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse* gstreamer0.10- plugins-ugly-multiverse-dbg* libavcodec-extra-52* libavformat52* libmjpegtools-1.9* libquicktime-dev* libquicktime1* libx264-85* mozilla-plugin-vlc* remuco-vlc* vlc* vlc-dbg* vlc-nox* vlc-plugin-ggi* vlc-plugin-jack* vlc-plugin-pulse* vlc-plugin-sdl* vlc-plugin-svg* vlc-plugin-svgalib*

unmarked all repositories but for the original (incl. deselecting
Medibuntu) and then reinstalled. No joy.

Opened up Medibuntu, reinstalled, same problem.
Tried the fixes outlined in
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-vl...-after-ubuntu-...
and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=video+failure
to no avail.

dmesg says it runs Linux version 2.6.32-24-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:07:29 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5)

How do I fix this and be able to watch vids again?
Many thanks, all.

Can you show us the error message you receive?

Adam

Sadly, there is no error message. The video apps show me the type of video codec then crash with no error message.

So if you run one of those apps from a terminal (such as mplayer) it simply tells you the video codec and then completely stops without any other output?

Adam

That is correct. Specifically, the video codec is within the app (mplayer, et al.) and does not appear in the terminal session window.

OK, if you run 'mplayer /path/to/video' it's going to display some output. Show us exactly what that output says.

Adam

mplayer Videos/IT_Crowd_4.01_Jen_the_Fredo.mkv
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Videos/IT.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC), -aid 0, -alang und
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 624x352 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 624 x 352 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 624x352 => 626x352 Planar YV12
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)8.0% 3 0
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
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Exiting... (Quit)

Hmmm... What if you force mplayer to use another output device, such as x11. 'mplayer -vo x11 /path/to/video' ?

Adam

That worked. How do I make this fix permanent?

Well that's not really a fix, more of a workaround for broken drivers.

Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to a post here.

Adam