[Slackbuilds-users] new VLC always crashes

[David Melik]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:26:36 +1000, Christoph Willing wrote:
 > I googled for:
 > vlc Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
 > object file: No such file or directory
 > which turned up a bunch of similar problems  and some solutions (not all
 > vlc related). I can't tell which of them may relate to your situation

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:07:31 +0500, Ozan Türkyılmaz wrote:
 > It looks more like a nvidia driver problem. Check wheater the dravier
 > installed correctly.

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:33:54 -0700,
orbea-zCudsq/yU5Nknbxzx/v8hQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
 > Yes, the nvidia driver is incorrectly installed. The issue is
 > specifically that libvdpau_nvidia.so does not exist. I would suggest
 > removing nvidia, cleaning up any broken symlinks left behind (See the
 > README), reinstalling xorg-server, mesa and then nvidia. Alternatively
 > with an older gpu nouveau [...]

Chris, Ozab, orbea, reread my original post, particularly 'I don't even 
have any
Nvidia hardware,' and I never had on this PC. None what you said has 
anything to do with it.  You all missed that there's an earlier line, 
'libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate,' and other error lines.  
VLC may now be built to use more parts of display hardware, and Nvidia 
is just something it checks for but is n/a. I'm using an AMD Radeon RX 
Vega 64 with kernel 4.18.11, but I don't think the AMD 3D drivers are 
ready for Slackware 14.2... and unfortunately VLC doesn't give me an 
option to not use such parts that make it crash.

root at 0.cosmos:~# lspci|grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
[AMD/ATI] Device 687f (rev c1)