On 29/05/17 16:05, John Pilkington wrote:
On 26/05/17 17:34, John Pilkington wrote:
On 28/03/17 16:56, John Pilkington wrote:
I reported earlier that vlc-3.0.0-0.16 gave immediate segfaults in
fedora 24. It does the same for me in fedora 25 with SD and HD TV
recordings and DVD .iso images. Before the segfault it reports
'libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate', but that may not be
the actual cause. Still using the nVidia 304 driver.
vlc-3.0.0-0.9.fc25.x86_64 works for me, as does smplayer-17.3.0-1
Yesterday, after a vlc upgrade in SL7, I absent-mindedly re-upgraded
it in FC25. Same immediate segfault. I couldn't locate any
EGL-files, and 3.0.0-0.9 wasn't showing up, so I removed all *nvidia
packages (304.135) using yumex-dnf and to my great surprise nouveau
just took over. It was already installed, but presumably blacklisted.
I suppose that could have been the problem.
vlc doesn't segfault with nouveau and appears to work ok. It gives
the same libEGL warning, and adds others re vdpau, but seems usable.
Having found that switching between *nvidia-304 and *nouveau could seem
painless I tried re-enabling *nvidia-304 and installed vlc-3.0.0-0.25
from testing. My kde-plasma desktop was active but had no panels or
task-launcher, and I wasn't able make either of them visible. Eventually
I reverted again to nouveau, undid a few settings that had got changed,
and once more have a working desktop. The new vlc seems ok, too.
The video card (old) is a GeForce 7500 LE (G72)
Another update. Under nouveau, xrandr showed only a 1024*768 monitor,
with no sign of the 1920*1080 tv on a DVI-to-HDMI-adapter. That screen
showed the same picture, with the wrong aspect ratio. So, for now, back
to the newly-stable 304.135-4. The panel and launcher reappeared after
'running' NVIDIA-X-Server Settings.
vlc...26snap from testing still segfaults on starting playback. vlc...9
from release still works.
This hardware has done what I have asked it to do for ~10 years, and
another in my family gives satisfaction under kubuntu 16.04, but it
looks as if a single-width GT 710 should fit in the box without needing
a new power supply or too much cash, would offer new facilities and
might suffer less from bit-rot. Timetabling delivery is awkward at
present, so I'll see how things go for a little longer.
John P
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