mplayer, insufficient resources error

Trying to play large resolution videos on my laptop used to throw up the following error:
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

I always assumed that it was just the crappy graphics card in the machine that couldn’t cope with big videos, but it turns out that X was just splitting up the memory and not giving enough to overlays. Adding the following option means I can now play DVDs, or I could if I had a DVD drive .

Section “Device”
[...]
Driver “neomagic”
Option “OverlayMem” “829440″
[...]
EndSection

Solution found once again via the gentoo forums, it may be a silly distro but the community resources are bloody excellent .

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