X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11

wezhira

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hi guys i recently did an upgrade from opensuse 11.2 to opensuse 11.3 everything went well but now it seem i have graphics issue . i have old nvidia fx 5200 and a samsung 22 inch monitor
i i tried using mplayer to watch videos but it wouldn't allow me to maximize the video it would just turn black with audio
all my media players including vlc have been giving me this error .
i have now run kaffeine from terminal and get an error

Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
Resource id: 0x14b
X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11
Extension: 133 (Uknown extension)
Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
Resource id: 0x14b
 
Try this on the terminal:

mplayer file_name -vo help

This will give you a list of available video-out devices. xv is the one you would normally want to use. Now try:

mplayer file_name -vo xv

If this works, you just have to find a way to configure your apps to use xv. If it doesn't, do the same routine and go through the list, see what works, if anything.
 
i tried that even with mplayer and i get dropped frames on fast scenes
 
yes i have i think my gfx card is failing i got nvidia 5200 and its hard to find agp cards now a days when using the x11 output works but there is alot of frame drops
 
What does glxgears report?
This will show you if there are irregularities regarding frame rate.
 
Might be worth upgrading your motherboard/CPU then. If you're on a budget, an mATX board with integrated graphics might be worth a look at. I picked up one of these. It has GeForce 8200 graphics, which supports the new hardware decoding of x264 video (really nice - plays 1080p video with about 5% cpu usage) and has PCIe slots for when you want to upgrade.
 
2480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 495.909 FPS
2717 frames in 5.0 seconds = 543.326 FPS
2719 frames in 5.0 seconds = 543.794 FPS
2733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 546.293 FPS
2712 frames in 5.0 seconds = 542.320 FPS
2718 frames in 5.0 seconds = 543.499 FPS
2723 frames in 5.0 seconds = 544.315 FPS
2714 frames in 5.0 seconds = 542.702 FPS
2702 frames in 5.0 seconds = 540.368 FPS
2714 frames in 5.0 seconds = 542.732 FPS
2702 frames in 5.0 seconds = 540.127 FPS
2629 frames in 5.0 seconds = 525.676 FPS
2684 frames in 5.0 seconds = 536.731 FPS
2696 frames in 5.0 seconds = 539.159 FPS
2703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 540.495 FPS
2511 frames in 5.0 seconds = 502.113 FPS
2691 frames in 5.0 seconds = 538.119 FPS
2722 frames in 5.0 seconds = 544.299 FPS
2091 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.191 FPS
2455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 490.919 FPS
2384 frames in 5.0 seconds = 476.698 FPS
2649 frames in 5.0 seconds = 529.755 FPS
2702 frames in 5.0 seconds = 540.294 FPS
2585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 516.864 FPS
1178 frames in 5.0 seconds = 235.594 FPS
1920 frames in 5.0 seconds = 383.928 FPS
1626 frames in 5.0 seconds = 325.049 FPS
2363 frames in 5.0 seconds = 472.301 FPS
1593 frames in 5.0 seconds = 318.568 FPS
thats my glx gears

reason y i think its graphics card is cause even in windows i get funny lines when playing back videos full screen my monitors resolution is 1680x 1050
i do wanna upgrade but i am a bit pressed for cash at the moment thanx though for your help
 
This also happened to me recently on Ubuntu Lucid (with a 7600GT). Restarting X (logging out and back in) solved the problem and I'm betting it's a driver bug or something similar.

By the way, you can see stderr output from X apps in ~/.xsession-errors.
 
yes i have i think my gfx card is failing i got nvidia 5200 and its hard to find agp cards now a days when using the x11 output works but there is alot of frame drops

Esquire has AGP cards in stock if you need one.
 
thanx ponder i got one from esquire there are some improvements


4935 frames in 5.0 seconds = 986.925 FPS
5280 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1055.995 FPS
6185 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1236.152 FPS
6168 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1233.503 FPS
5914 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1182.612 FPS
6284 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1256.181 FPS
6102 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1220.066 FPS
6225 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1244.992 FPS
6164 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1232.789 FPS
5510 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1101.143 FPS
4626 frames in 5.0 seconds = 923.747 FPS
 
No way directed at you wezhira, but I think I should mention the following:

Glxgears is in no way a benchmark utility, do not forget that.
It's use it to see if direct rendering is working and like I said, to see when the frame rates go wonky. Since it does not put excessive load on the gfx card to tax it to it's limits you cannot take the output as a benchmark to test even with similar cards.
There is a huge shortage of good 3D benchmarking utilities in Linux, we usually just fire up a FPS and see what the fps is like on various settings.

What you are looking for when using glxgears is:
Is it working - direct rendering is working ( you could also use glxinfo | grep rendering - I just like the gears spinning)
Are you getting better and more consistent frame rates.
 
thanx myworld i do know that its just i was trying to point out an improvement in my system
 
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