Re: PC freezes totally when playing audio with xine
Darren Salt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.xine.user |
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| 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... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. It's a fine line between fishing & standing still ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/