On Monday 27 November 2006 09:33, Eben King wrote:
> > How often do you crash X, and what are you running?
>
> If mplayer gets a bad movie, or doesn't like my video card or something, it
> might play a few ms of the movie and then hang on a black screen. Doesn't
> respond to ctrl-alt-Fn, q, esc, or any other keystroke. Only solution I've
> found is to log in remotely and do a "/etc/init.d/gdm restart".
Wow. The only problems I have is when the disk is dirty. I also noticed how
various players deal better with reading them. I tend to stick with FC.
> Hasn't crashed in weeks, since I learned to play all "dubious" movies
> elsewhere. But I'm open to the possibility that it _might_, which is why I
> run some stuff outside of X.
I mainly use Xine to play movies.
--Steve Szmidt
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