Still no joy with this video problem
i can play all videos via Firefox no problem can not do TV via FF .
Every application to play TV or a recorded film fails with the same report this
started happening around 2 months ago but have not been able to pin down exactly
which update caused the failure the system is fully updated every day .
### uname -a
Linux ds9 4.10.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 18 08:39:42 CEST 2017 x86_64
GNU/Linux
### lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev
a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 34d8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27, NUMA node 0
Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau
### lsmod |grep nouveau
nouveau 1544192 12
led_class 16384 2 input_leds,nouveau
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
wmi 16384 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
video 36864 1 nouveau
ttm 86016 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 126976 1 nouveau
drm 303104 15 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 cx88_vp3054_i2c,cx88xx,nouveau
button 16384 1 nouveau
### dmesg |grep nouveau
[ 13.222319] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT216 (0a5000a2)
[ 13.358327] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 70.16.39.00.0f
[ 13.358663] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 d7500086 d7500086
[ 13.358866] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 b42800b3 b42800b3
[ 13.359058] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 adb75814 adb75814
[ 13.359250] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 adb75814 adb75814
[ 13.359439] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 adb75814 adb75814
[ 13.360092] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB DDR2
[ 14.441658] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB
[ 14.441659] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[ 14.441664] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[ 14.441665] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[ 14.441667] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000302 00020030
[ 14.441670] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000300 00000000
[ 14.441671] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 01032310 00000000
[ 14.441673] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 02021362 00020010
[ 14.441674] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030
[ 14.441675] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00002161
[ 14.441676] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00000200
[ 14.444620] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: hwmon_device_register() is deprecated. Please
convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info(). [ 14.464244] nouveau
0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies [ 14.524032] nouveau
0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1280x1024 fb: 0x70000, bo ffff880130211400
[ 14.524777] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device [ 14.681857] nouveau
0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device [ 14.694858] [drm] Initialized
nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
### dmesg |grep vga
[ 0.637534] pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device
[ 0.637536] pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added:
decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none [ 0.637538] pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb:
bridge control possible [ 0.637538] vgaarb: loaded
Running kaffeine from a terminal calling tv sound ok no video
[00007f8fa4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[00007f8fa4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[00007f8fa4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
same again but trying to play a video stored on the system
[00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation
failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
with exactly the same respomse from VLC as well this has now been in this
brain dead state for a couple of months the system is updated daily with
pacman -Syu
Help needed to get this problem flattened .
Hope someone can spot the problem or if not what more info do you need .
Thanks Pete .
