Comment 510 for bug 359392

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:09 +0000, Dave Conniff wrote:

> however I experienced a
> lockup on launching a video using mplayer's xv Intel(R) Video Overlay
> option, which had been fixing the horrible screen tearing I have been
> getting on every driver and kernel I have tested (which is all of them
> I
> think). The lock up involved giving me aandom green screen, and no
> control over anyting. I am currently running kernel 2.6.29.4 because
> it
> seems to be giving me the best video performance, Keep in mind that
> this
> is in UXA now, and I haven't experienced any hard lockups like this in
> UXA with any of the prior drivers, although there had been plenty of
> memory leaks which prevented me from using UXA as my deault......I
> realize this is a little off this bug topic, but it happend while
> attempting a fix for this bug so I thought I would mention it....Also
> it
> doesn't happen every time I open a video with that option, although
> the
> systems behavior becomes odd every time I do it

I'm having a similar problem on Fedora 11
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499245) on GMA 945. Its not
100% the same problem (for example, xv works fine for me, its SDL that
freezes), but its more likely to be related to your problem this this
launchpad ticket.

The Fedora freeze also seems to be Intel driver related. I'm really not
pointing fingers anywhere and I got relatively very little flak on my
machines compared to other people on the list, but the Intel GMA driver
scenario is pretty horrible right now - I'm actually advising people not
to upgrade and to buy non-Intel graphics.