Re: mplayer restarting openbsd

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, frantisek holop <[email protected]> wrote:
> hmm, on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:06:11PM -0500, STeve Andre' said that
>> Frantisek,  I think you are having weird hardware problems.
>> I did what you have done on my -current system (A W500 thinkpad)
>> and watched the video without incident.
>
> yes, this could very well be hw related.  although i think
> it is rather systematic for a memory related error, those
> problems tend to be more random and a bit more difficult
> to reproduce; this is systematic.
>
> the other reason i don't know where to look is simply that
> i have used this notebook for almost 2 years now, and there
> were no problems like this before.  it is only the last couple
> of snapshots, last mplayer update.  it's all too easy to blame
> the hw all the time...

if you have an older OpenBSD CD, you can easily verify.

--patrick