xine + nouveu on 14.1 = crash
 

I'm having trouble getting xine to start on Slackware 14.1 32-bit.
MPlayer works and aliens vlc build works.
If I use the corporate-hide-code nvidia driver xine also works,
but with nouveau it just won't start. Instead it crashes
with the following message:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 148 (XVideo)
Minor opcode of failed request: 17 ()
Serial number of failed request: 1739
Current serial number in output stream: 1739

I guess it's xv related ?
Both the version that comes with Slackware 14.1 (xine-lib 1.1.2 and
xine-ui 0.99.7) and the latest xine-lib 1.2.5 with xine-ui 0.99.8
have the same problem.

My hardware and xorg.conf are listed in the attachment.
The kernel is exactly the same as generic-smp but with jfs and
aic7xxx support compiled in (could never make it work with initrd),
but the kernel is not the issue here, since I noted the same
behavior without the aic7xxx controller.
Otherwise it is a full install with all bells and whistles.

Have anyone else had issues ?
Anyone with a clue what's going on ?

This is a wild guess on my part, but here goes: using the non smp 32 bit linux kernel (i.e. RAM limited to 3 GB), the wincodecs work just fine with xine and allow xine to play, for example, wmv files. However, with the smp linux kernel, using xine with any wincodec will cause xine to crash. The same kind of problem might be happening in your case.

Like I said, xine won't even launch so I don't get to choose what to play or how.

My wild guess would say that it could still be the same kind of problem, just at a lower level (e.g. library module that xine always uses instead of software file that you choose to have xine use). Possibly try this using the linux kernel that doesn't use the PAE memory address extensions and see if it works?

On another wild guess on my part, the following may be of assistance: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ui/+bug/363880 I know the linux distribution there is Ubuntu and not Slackware, but it may help anyways.

That bug was apparently related to compositing window managers.
I can assure you I am as far from compositing as is possible (TWM).
Thanks for the tip though, nouveau obviously has problems on 64-bit as well.
I discovered other problems also, all of a sudden all my web browsers stopped
showing me fonts, not all fonts, but enough to make text unreadable.
I'm now running the proprietary nvidia driver and everything, including xine,
works perfectly.
I guess I'll have to stay away from os graphics drivers until a viable alternative
exists