On 8 February 2012, at 13:40, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> ... >> Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste >> it here. > > Unfortunately, that's impossible. > > mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and > forces me to reboot the machine.
Just to be clear: does it segfault when you use "-ao null"? What about the framebuffer? Stroller.