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 ed the thumbnails but didn't 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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