I wonder if you have a SoundBlaster PCI card? I do, and the KDE Cd Player
has been causing the same symptoms you describe for me.
Supposedly, the new 2.2.18 kernel fixes a IRQ leak related to the sound
blaster card. I'll try it soon and see if it makes a difference in my case.
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Scott Langley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.scottlangley.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trebor A. Rude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:34 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Kaiman locked my machine.
> Was sorting through some .mp3s, and launched Kaiman, via the "KDE Media
> Player enqueue" action in Konqueror. Everything was fine, until I hit the
> play button. Then the system froze fairly hard. The mouse refused to move,
> ctrl-alt-bs had no effect, etc. The system responded to ping, and to
> alt-sysrq-b, but didn't seem to respond to alt-sysrq-u. alt-sysrq-k only
> had the effect of destablizing my screen (like one of the syncs was way
> off or missing). ctrl-alt-f[1-6] had no effect, either before or after an
> alt-sysrq-r. Any clue what might have caused this? I realize it's not much
> info to go on, so let me know what else you'd like to know, and I'll try
> to provide it. Here's a list of the possibly relevant packages I have
> installed:
>
> kdebase-2.1-0.20001204.2mdk
> kdesupport-2.1-0.20001211.1mdk
> kdepim-2.1-0.20001123.1mdk
> kdebase-nsplugins-2.1-0.20001204.2mdk
> kdenetwork-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdelibs-2.1-0.20001211.1mdk
> kdeadmin-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdegraphics-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdetoys-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdebindings-2.0-3mdk
> kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20001204.1mdk
> kdegames-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdemultimedia-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdeutils-2.1-0.20001203.1mdk
> kdelibs-sound-2.1-0.20001211.1mdk
> kernel-2.2.17-25mdk
> kernel-2.2.17-27mdk
> kernel-2.2.17-28mdk (this is the one that was running)
> alsa-lib-0.5.9-2mdk
> alsa-2.2.17_0.5.9c-27mdk
> alsa-2.2.17_0.5.9c-28mdk (I haven't done a bit of config on any of these)
> glibc-2.2-18mdk
>
> --
> Trebor A. Rude
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Registered Linux User #89308
> http://counter.li.org/
>
>