Re: PC freezes totally when playing audio with xine

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Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:54:42 Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that [email protected] may or may not have written...
> > 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.

Thanks for your reply. It was indeed a problem with the kernel: the cpufreq 
driver caused the sata driver to produce tons of DriveSeekErrors, which then 
cause the system freeze.  But for some reason, those problems only occured 
when using xine. Anyway, disabling cpufreq scaling solved the problem.
But I'd really like to use cpufreq scaling, so if you have any ideas how xine 
could relate to the problem, please tell me.

- Marius

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