Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles
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 <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> 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.
>
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