Re: Xv freeze with xserver 4.2.1-0pre1v1
Hi Glyn,
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (This is not a proper bugreport yet. I need some more advice before I can
> provide one of them.)
>
> I've added the necessary packages to my woody install to run Xfree server
> 4.2, because I wanted to try mplayer's Xv output for my Trident cyber9385.
> When using Xv and mplayer, the xserver will sometimes freeze, to the extent
> that it locks up my whole machine. (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace won't do anything,
> and the box appears dead to the network too, so I have to shutdown and fsck
> every time.)
Sounds familiar :-(
Please check
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-September/020902.html - is
that what you see too?
> This has occurred at numerous different points when running mplayer, and I
> have as yet been unable to narrow the bug down to a single operation, so I
> suspect that the problem might be with X. However, I cannot find anything
> else that uses Xv. Can anyone advise me if there is any other software I
> can try to reproduce this bug with, for example some Xv demo programs? I've
> had a quick google, but all I can find is mplayer and the Xv development
> docs.
The above URL includes a way I found of reliably crashing with gtv
(package: smpeg-gtv).
Have we got the same problem?
HTH,
Neale.
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