On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: > > HOWEVER, whenever I try to play an MP3 in XMMS or view a movie in XMPS, > > the computer locks up completely! I mean, we're talking Windows-like > > jamming (but without the mouse moving) without a Ctrl-Alt-Del response or > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace either. I have to hard reset my computer and then I > > get the usual fsck stuff which says there were "detached" inodes (I > > think ... or something like that) which get fixed (after entering the > > root password) and then the cycle repeats itself. > > Try aviplay instead. I have no problem with it.
> What about sound ? It could also cause problems (including those > freezes) > What sound card are you using, with what kind of driver ? I'm using an SB Live with the kernel module emu10k1. It's listed in my /etc/modules. This never happenecd before (ie. the crasing - usually I'd just get errors like "Cannot access /dev/dsp" or something like that) and mpg123 does it too (the crashing)! I find the general performance of my system is suffering as well from this recent mysterious problem. Thanks again, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW
