-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/08 17:57, stabbyjones wrote: > before i can log a bug i need to work out what's going on. is there a > system log i can check for a system freeze? i've never had such a > harsh crash before. > > when i'm playing videos my computer locks up and goes blank. X crashed > to a commandline once so i thought it may be my xorg, dpkg-reconfigure > xorg-xserver to a basic conf did nothing. > > i thought it was the new 8.6 ati driver but it does the same with 8.4. > > i thought it was the debian-multimedia packages because the thumbnails > of everything possible to thumbnail went green after a > gstreamer-ffmpeg update. removing all deb-multi packages and going > back back to official helped the thumbnails but didn't help playback > crashes. > > i've used totem-gstreamer, totem-xine, vlc, mplayer all were able to > play sometimes but most were either green or audio only. > > totem-xine was probably the best at playing correctly but since i've > been playing around it crashes on almost every video and i'm not sure > which log i can check for errors. > > i've been trying to work out why this is happening but i never had to > bother with playing multimedia before so i'm a bit lost. > > at worst i'll just reinstall a fresh system as my data and home are > all on seperate partitions. i just wanted to see if anyone has any > ideas before giving up.
Freezes are very hard to debug. Try /var/log/Xorg.0.log. ITMT, try the vesa driver, or get a real video card. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhz9FEACgkQS9HxQb37XmckZgCg3hOJhllcchMLWKW2HjMDQWPi VVcAnRoAWw0erhlR9AteJb2lI14aALEs =Wwq2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
