thanks, i'll give the log a look when i get home and see what i can find. the vesa driver was one thing i forgot so i'll look into that was well.
this was my first ATI card and it's worked quite well for the 6 months since i bought it. this last week has been the first major issue i've had. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
