Re: PC freezes totally when playing audio with xine

Darren Salt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.user
Message-ID <4F7CB7D2B8%[email protected]>
I demand that [email protected] may or may not have written...

> I hope this is the right list for my issue. I could find no other place to
> post bug reports.

You've not looked far, then :-)

> I'm using xine on a PC with Via Epia EN12000EG mainboard. Whenever I use
> the xine engine, the computer freezes totally. If I select "Stereo 2.0" the
> sound stutters for about 1 second, then mutes and the computer is totally
> unresponsible.

... it has no responsibilities? I don't think that that was what you meant
;-)

> Can't even ssh in. If  "Passthrough" is selected, the sound continues in a
> loop of about 200ms after the freeze. Sometimes the freeze occures directly
> after hitting the play button, sometimes the music plays fine for several
> hours before the freeze occures (though this does not happen often).

*ANY* such lockup is either a kernel bug or a hardware problem. You should
set up a netconsole or serial console at boot time to see if that provides
anything useful.

> I have no problems regarding freezes when using other audio engines (such
> as Helix).

Evidently, they're doing something different...

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