2008/7/10 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. >> >> > > What changes were made before the freezes occurred? > Like, I get freezes with Debian's 2.6.25 > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482074) but not when I > compile the 2.6.25.9 kernel myself. > > Hugo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
i've been running 2.6.24 the whole time so it's probably not related. i think i'd given it a lot of clutter over the past week. there were driver xorg and codec updates which were all possible breaks. i think i worked the freezes down to x looking for an incomplete ati driver and crashing on vx playback. while cleaning up deb-multimedia packages that may have also been causing issues. checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old pointed me to the display driver working incorrectly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
