On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:35:18PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> mplayer worked fine on my Dell Latitude E6510 (nVidia GT218 [NVS 3100M] graphics)
> up to and including kernel 3.7-rc4. However, with 3.7-rc5 or -rc6, any attempt to
> run mplayer just blanks the screen, shows some stray white pixels in the upper left
> corner, kills the X server, and spews the following errors from the kernel:

Fix was already posted and should be merged soon.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=7a259e65569bd7593ad541c84982027969ec9c45