Hi Glyn, On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> Hello, > > (This is not a proper bugreport yet. I need some more advice before I can > provide one of them.) > > I've added the necessary packages to my woody install to run Xfree server > 4.2, because I wanted to try mplayer's Xv output for my Trident cyber9385. > When using Xv and mplayer, the xserver will sometimes freeze, to the extent > that it locks up my whole machine. (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace won't do anything, > and the box appears dead to the network too, so I have to shutdown and fsck > every time.) Sounds familiar :-( Please check http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-September/020902.html - is that what you see too? > This has occurred at numerous different points when running mplayer, and I > have as yet been unable to narrow the bug down to a single operation, so I > suspect that the problem might be with X. However, I cannot find anything > else that uses Xv. Can anyone advise me if there is any other software I > can try to reproduce this bug with, for example some Xv demo programs? I've > had a quick google, but all I can find is mplayer and the Xv development > docs. The above URL includes a way I found of reliably crashing with gtv (package: smpeg-gtv). Have we got the same problem? HTH, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
