Re: kino "crash" - looses monitor/X

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Atte Andr=E9 Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 02:26 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
>
>> In any case, the screen going black or the monitor losing video signal, =
as
>> you describe in your initial post, cannot be a Kino bug. =A0It may be a =
bug
>> in xorg-server, or in the xf86-video-... card driver, or in a library th=
at
>> is linked into the xorg-server, or in the kernel.
>
> You sound so confident!
>
> I *never* had this box crash before, no other application is capable of
> that! And if it's a matter of updating large portions of the screen, why
> doesn't hefty video playback crash? Sometimes I open kino, touch the
> "next scene" button once and it crashes. After a hard reset + reboot,
> same story (worst case).
>
> The box is otherwise very stable, I'm a musician and I use it for
> composing quite cpu-taxing stuff. Did an hours live performance with it
> last week, no problems.
>
> Could you please tell me another way (with another application) I could
> crash xorg?
>

Is Preview on External Monitor enabled?
http://www.kinodv.org/help/prefs3

If so, turn it off. On uses Firewire output.

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