Thus spake Andrew Overholt on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:37:38AM -0400: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: > > > > HOWEVER, whenever I try to play an MP3 in XMMS or view a movie in XMPS, > > > the computer locks up completely! I mean, we're talking Windows-like > > > jamming (but without the mouse moving) without a Ctrl-Alt-Del response or > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace either. I have to hard reset my computer and then I > > > get the usual fsck stuff which says there were "detached" inodes (I > > > think ... or something like that) which get fixed (after entering the > > > root password) and then the cycle repeats itself. > > > > Try aviplay instead. I have no problem with it. > > > What about sound ? It could also cause problems (including those > > freezes) > > What sound card are you using, with what kind of driver ? > > I'm using an SB Live with the kernel module emu10k1. It's listed in my > /etc/modules. This never happenecd before (ie. the crasing - usually I'd > just get errors like "Cannot access /dev/dsp" or something like that) > and mpg123 does it too (the crashing)!
OK, this is good. I have an SB Live too and it works very well with the kernel module. ( I tried Alsa but the sound was crappy) The "cannot access /dev/dsp" *could* possibly be caused by an application using /dev/dsp and bypassing any sound daemon ( such as arts or esd), thus blocking any other app from using it too. I use aviplay, xmms and mpg123 all three (at the same time sometimes :) with esd and I don't have any problem at all. I also used the avi plugin for xmms. However I've never managed to get a decent result from xmps, so I don't use it. I don't have to complain *too much* about the stability of Nvidia's 1.0-1251 drivers. Except they aren't opensource, which is a PITA enough... > I find the general performance of my system is suffering as well from this > recent mysterious problem. Try to pinpoint which app or driver is likely to cause crashes. My system is running very smoothly with the apps I mentioned earlier... > Thanks again, > > Andrew Good luck. Romain -- "Don't talk to me about disclaimers! I invented disclaimers!" -- The Censored Hacker
