Comment 17 for bug 774008

Cracking cheese madbiologist!

Yes, I closed the playback window prematurely, as I did not have the
time to see the whole movie again just then. (It is one of the many
hundreds of ABC TV Australia shows I have stored thanks to Jeremy
Visser's wonderful Python iView application
https://jeremy.visser.name/2009/08/python-iview/ which legitimately
downloads shows available from the ABC iView site. It only works for
those of us living in the .au domain though.)

As the cat dmesg > whatever.txt cops a Permission denied response, even
after using my sudo command, I have attached the entire dmseg file
from /var/log/ as it is simply a plain text file anyway.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Michael

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 16:07 +0000, madbiologist wrote:

> Wallace and Gromit! We have to get this working! :)
>
> It is interesting that the direct GStreamer playback worked. I wonder
> if the problem is due to compositing, or to Totem, or both. We can also
> see in the terminal output that Xvideo is being used - I'm not sure if
> this is the case when playing the file in Totem. I presume the ERROR
> message appeared when you closed the window after 36.87 seconds of
> playback, before the end of the video.
>
> I think I've just figured out why the dmesg grep for drm didn't work.
> Grep is a search tool and your result is likely to be expected if DRM
> (the kernel's Direct Rendering Manager) is not being used at all. I've
> just tried grepping dmesg for "gromit" and there was no output. So just
> attach the entire dmesg file:
>
> cat dmesg > filename.txt
>
> Don't forget to navigate to /var/log first.
>
> Hopefully that will tell us what is going on graphics-wise in the kernel
> during boot.
>