Re: VLC problems in fc25 too

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)