Totem broken after upgrade from 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10

taylorkh · 11-15-2008, 08:54 AM

Totem worked fine in 7.10 with various media types. I upgraded to 8.04 and it still worked fine. After upgrading to 8.10 the player will start and play a .avi file just fine. However, if I change the size of the Totem window the sound continues but the video area turns black and stays that way. It appears that the window does not properly resize - I see fragments of the window cascaded on top of one another as I stretch it.

I did a clean install of 8.10 and added the 3 GSreamer codecs offered when I first attempted to play an .avi file. Same issue.

I have searched out a number of issues with Totem not playing video at all however, none like this where it works fine until the window is resized.

Any suggestions other than use another player or go back to 8.04?

TIA,

Ken

amani · 11-15-2008, 09:46 AM

X has changed a lot in 8.04 --> 8.10

post relevant part of

#lspci -vvv

Do
#sudo apt-get check

and post your xorg.conf file (if there is anything in it)

taylorkh · 11-15-2008, 10:10 AM

I installed SMPlayer and it works just fine (better than Totem I think from my little playing with it). I just restored my "production" installation to 7.10 from a backup taken just before the upgrade process - as much to make sure my backup process worked.

I do have another 8.10 install as a VMWare VM. It experiences the same Totem issues so I thought I would use it to debug with. Here are the data requested.

From lspci -vvv:

Quote:

00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc Abstract SVGA II Adapter
Subsystem: VMware Inc Abstract SVGA II Adapter
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Region 0: I/O ports at 1410 [size=16]
Region 1: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 2: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 70100000 [disabled] [size=32K]

I ran sudo apt-get check:

Quote:

ken@vmUbuntu810:~$ sudo apt-get check
[sudo] password for ken:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

And the xorg.conf file:

Quote:

ken@vmUbuntu810:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
Identifier "VMware SVGA"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "VMware SVGA"
Monitor "vmware"
# Don't specify DefaultColorDepth unless you know what you're
# doing. It will override the driver's preferences which can
# cause the X server not to run if the host doesn't support the
# depth.
Subsection "Display"
# VGA mode: better left untouched
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "vmware"
VendorName "VMware, Inc"
HorizSync 1-10000
VertRefresh 1-10000
EndSection

amani · 11-15-2008, 10:59 AM

If you do a proper clean install of 8.10, then all of your X-things will be automatic and better.

...the vmware lspci etc are not useful

taylorkh · 11-15-2008, 11:04 AM

Thanks, However, aAs I indicated in my original post, I did a complete, fresh install (not on VMWare) and experienced the same issue with Totem as I have seen in the VM and on the upgraded install. All are running on the same PC (interchangeable hard drives - no multi-booting).