On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:22:29AM -0500, Marcel wrote: > Every time I want to try xfree 4.3.0 I get random computer freezes when I use > xine or aviplay or mplayer or xawtv or tvtime. Mouse frozen, keyboard frozen. > The worst being mplayer and tvtime: Hard lockup occurs within a few minutes. > In fact, I've never been able to watch a movie entirely. So far, I've tried > the following versions several times: > > xserver-xfree86_4.3.0-2_i386.deb and > xserver-xfree86_4.3.0-0ds4_i386.deb from Daniel Stone as well. > > As soon as I revert to xfree 4.2.1, everything's working fine. I can watch > videos for several days without any problem. But when I want to try xfree > 4.3.0 again, the problem reappears each and every time. > > I don't know what may be causing this but please, don't let this thing go > into 'testing'. > > I was using 'sid' for a long time and now I'm back to 'sarge' because of xfree > 4.3.0. I notice you're using NVidia's proprietary driver. Does the problem go away if you use the "nv" driver instead? You can use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to change this. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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