G96: system hang on video playback via vdpau
Submitted by Elmar Stellnberger
Assigned to Nouveau Project
Description
Yesterday I have installed the proprietary firmware for nouveau as described under wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware and now my machine hangs reliably on start of video playback. If vdpau is not used (i.e. by specifying xine -V XShm xy.mkv) then it does not hang. It first starts to hang, then there is a short moment where it reacts on pressing num lock and where playback continues and then it hangs forever.
When switching to vt02 before playback starts you can see several messages; it also reacts on Alt-PrnScr-l/m/p printing out that it would now print the memory/registers/backtraces but then does not actually print them unless you presss Alt-PrnScr-C. There appears to be nothing in the log (switched to vt02 is the last message in the xorg.0.log).
Current Operating System: Linux AmiloXi3650 4.6.0-rc6-ARCH-00006-g7d92f59 #8 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 3 14:17:04 CEST 2016 x86_64
Xorg Build Date: 05 April 2016 05:24:02PM