Re: Video player programs freeze on me

On 22 janv. 2017 15:50, Robin Cook <rcook@???> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:21:30 +0100
> Christian Marillat <marillat@???> wrote:

[...]

>> > It worked when I set it to xv and x11. The others vdpau, opengl, sdl,
>> > vaapi all did the some thing and drm got an error messages and didn't
>> > play at all
>>
>> Which is the drm error message ?
>>
>> Christian
>
> [vo/drm] VT_GETMODE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> [vo/drm] Failed to set up VT switcher. Terminal switching will be unavailable.
> [vo/drm] Cannot set CRTC: Permission denied
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device.

Apparently a kernel module isn't loaded or the kernel is broken.

Reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log is needed to search for errors or warnings.

Christian