Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles
2008/7/10 Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>:
> 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
>
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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.
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