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    Video issues, black out with video playing, [SOLVED]

    Alright, So I recently reformated my computer, and with that a whole slew of problems arose. Some of which I was able to solve.

    My main problems now are 1) wireless, which I can easily solve, and 2) A video problem that I partially solved last time (I got it to be working, but not well)

    First this is what my system is:
    Gateway 320M
    Processor is an Intel Celeron M
    I have 1 GB of RAM
    I have a 1.75 GB of SWAP
    Graphics card is an Intel Chipset
    Running Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

    Problem:
    I have everything working, except when I play a video. Once I start to play a video of any kind my screen goes black, and I have to do a hard restart. Someone told me before to use a bigger swap, which I did this time at the expense of my Windows partition (which doesn't really matter to me). I'm using 1024x768 resolution as I did with 8.04, which had no problems.

    What I have tried so far:
    1) lowering screen resolution. Result: same as before, screen blacks out in a few seconds of playing a video
    2) turning off all effects. Result: same as before.
    3) different media players. Result: same as before for all tested, players include: Kaffeine, Dragon, VLC, MPlayer.

    Please help, Right now it doesn't matter if I have to downgrade. But I like the set up of KDE 4.1 now, so I'd prefer not to. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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    Re: Video issues, black out with video playing,

    Do you have any messages in the system logs? Have you tried to press Ctr+Alt+F1 (or F2, F3) to get to a console session?
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      Re: Video issues, black out with video playing,

      Originally posted by barbolani
      Do you have any messages in the system logs? Have you tried to press Ctr+Alt+F1 (or F2, F3) to get to a console session?
      Alright, I have done as you suggested. Here is what I found:

      From the system logs:

      Date: 2009-01-15 08:03:02
      Hostname: ----- (this is extraneous info)
      Process: kdm[4969]
      Level: Information
      Original File: /var/log/syslog
      (attached message):
      X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly

      and I also tried to get a console session and got this:

      Date: 2009-01-15 08:03:02
      Hostname: ----- (this is extraneous info)
      Process: kernel
      Level: Information
      Original File: /var/log/syslog
      (attached message)
      [18334.019254] Xorg[5009]: segfault at 8 ip b7aa2b64 sp bfcc1e00 error 4 in libdri.so[b7a9f000+8000]

      Date: 2009-01-15 08:03:02
      Hostname: ----- (this is extraneous info)
      Process: console-kit-daemon[4751]
      Level: Information
      Original File: /var/log/syslog
      (attached message):
      WARNING: Unable to activate console: No such device or address

      I really don't know what to make of it. Anyone please advise on situation. This is all very strange to me. Currently all problems are solved except for this one. Thanks in advance.
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        Re: Video issues, black out with video playing,

        Open VLC, set preferences to "X11 video output" and try again.
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          Re: Video issues, black out with video playing,

          Originally posted by HavocXphere
          Open VLC, set preferences to "X11 video output" and try again.
          That seems to have worked! Thanks so much! If it happens again I'll come back, but that seems not to be necessary, as I can even play HD .mkv files.
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