On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
> after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on
> where to search next for a cure to my problem.

*any* movie? What codecs are you trying? Perhaps you're trying to play
something you don't have any support for, and that's what's doing the
actual crashing.

> The problem does not occur with an install of Mandriva one live for
> 2009.0 but this distro has other problems, and an upgrade to 2009.1
> gives a messy system.

Well ... perhaps don't use Mandriva? If it can't upgrade itself
properly, use something that can.

-jim

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