Re: VLC problem running on DragonFly 2.0.0

["Archimedes Gaviola" <archimedes.gaviola@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Max Herrgaard <herrgaard@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Max,
>
>    Hi again.
>
>> This time I have successfully installed the sound card driver of my
>> laptop which is an Intel high definition audio by recompiling the
>> kernel again through adding device pcm and device snd_hda modules then
>
>    Usually you add support either by compiling it into the kernel or
> by loading the modules.
>    If you use GENERIC the line 'snd_hda_load="YES"' in
> /boot/loader.conf should load the module.
>    'kldload snd_hda' at a prompt works too.

Yes you're right. kldload is the alternative way of loading modules.

>
>> it works fine while VLC is executed in the console. This time with
>
>    In console? Do you mean without running Xorg?

Yes, executing at the terminal console with command-line way of
running VLC. The terminal console is running also on top of Xorg/Xfce
environment.

>
>> Xfce4 desktop environment, running VLC on the GUI will also occur the
>> core dump issue and the VLC process just died right after the moment
>> it is executed. What should be the parameters of the ktrace to track
>> VLC process executed on top of Xfce4?
>
>    Do you start it from a menu? What is the start command for that
> menu item? You could try
>    to change it to include ktrace, something like 'ktrace vlc'.
>        If you'd like a large ktrace dump file, you could try a
> complete ktrace of xfce. Try 'ktrace -i startx'.
>    Remember this will generate a LARGE dump file. 'ktrace -C' turns
> all ongoing tracing off.
>

Yes, I start it from the Xfce4 menu then proceed to multimedia
sub-menu where VLC is located. VLC will appear on this area after
pkgsrc installation. Clicking VLC here will cause the VLC process to
die or exit right away and a core dumped message will be reported on
the dmesg. Okay, I'll try ktrace with your recommended parameters.

>>
>> I also attached the dmesg output of the detected Intel sound card driver.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Archimedes
>>
>
>    I don't know how xfce does this kind of things. Maybe you need to
> change something in its sound
>    settings or add a startup option. Does sound work at all within
> xfce, or is it only vlc that fails?

I do an ongoing investigation of the problem, I will check sound card
related configurations. Sound works with Xfce4 because as I've tried
another multimedia player MPlayer, it will work on this sound card.

>  Did you compile xfce yourself or did you use packages?

I encountered problems while compiling VLC on DragonFly-2.0.0 with the
latest release (0.9.4) on a tarball source and I still need to report
this to the VLC support forum. Xfce4 was compiled using pkgsrc
(2008Q2). Below is the info of the package.

$ pkg_info vlc
Information for vlc-0.8.6fnb2:

Comment:
VideoLAN Client

Requires:
xdg-dirs>=1.4
wxGTK>=2.6.3nb1
faad2>=2.6.1
flac>=1.1.3nb1
liba52>=0.7.4nb3
libcddb>=0.9.5nb1
libid3tag>=0.15.1bnb1
libmad>=0.15.1bnb1
fribidi>=0.10.4nb1
gettext-lib>=0.14.5
pcre>=6.2
SDL_image>=1.2.5
freetype2>=2.1.10nb1
libcdio>=0.76nb1
ffmpeg-devel>=20071004
SDL>=1.2.10
lame>=3.96.1nb4
libvorbis>=1.1.0nb1
libdvdplay>=1.0.1nb3
libdvbpsi>=0.1.3nb2
libdvdnav>=0.1.9nb1
libdvdread>=0.9.5nb2
libmatroska>=0.8.0nb1
libmpeg2>=0.4.0bnb5
libogg>=1.1.2nb1
libxml2>=2.6.23nb1
libXv>=1.0.1
libXxf86vm>=1.0.1
libXdamage>=1.0.3
libdrm>=2.3.0

>
>    Good luck :-)

Yes, thanks :-)

Archimedes