[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Overholt) writes: > Hi, > > I have been successfully using Debian Woody for about 8 months now and I > am proud to say that it's not my default boot. Recently I've been trying ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I usually ignore posts that start out like this. For some reason they rub me wrong. (Even though I am in no way a part of the Debian Project) Just a loyal user. I am still using stable, so I might not have insight to all your problems, but I will try to help. > to get XMPS working and after trying to watch a DivX with crappy quality, > I decided to upgrade to the NVidia drivers from their site. This went off > without a hitch and now I get the nice NVidia logo when starting > Enlightenment. > > Last night, I decided to recompile my kernel without SMP support (I saw > that I had it compiled in and that it would run faster without it. After > running make xconfig, I ran make dep modules modules_install. This > resulted in an error at the SMP part of the compilation at which point I > realized that I have some screwed up kernel source 'cause this happens > every time I try to compile without SMP support. Could you post the error messages. Actually the error messages, and the last 10-15 lines before that would probably be helpful. Most problems I have had compiling kernels has NOT been a problem with the source. > Oh well, I said, and went to bed. Today I turned on my machine and the > X-Server wouldn't connect (text login vs. normal gdm). I thought this was > weird so I tryed `startx'. This also did not work and after a few hours > of messing around with different things, I recompiled my Nvidia drivers > and now have working gdm again. > > 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. Lockups of this type are extremely rare with Linux. Could be a driver or hardware issue. While I like XMMS, it can cause some nasty problems. I have had it cause problems with my gnome-sawmill desktop. I does cause the desktop to lock up, but not that tight -- and can be fixed by stopping whatever is being played. Other players do not seem to have this problem. I would really try to avoid that reset button if at all possible. If <ctrl><alt><F1> will get you to a text console do (as root) the command " /etc/init.d/gdm stop ". ... If I cannot get to a text console, I go to another computer on my network and telnet in. Hope something here has been of help. Paul -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 *
