On Sun December 16 2007, David Fox wrote: > gmplayer too as well :) but I don't use totem. I'm also running the > nvidia driver in unstable right now (or whatever it was since I last > updated) on my FX 5200 card. I have the GEForce 7300 card on my Dell desktop unit.
> > I haven't found mplayer to crash too often (like in the middle of a > dvd or what have you) but sometimes I will run gmplayer in a window > off of iceweasel (mplayer-plugin) and leave the system on all night > listening to radio or somesuch. Then wnen I get up in the morning, > closing the window where gmplayer is running (in an iceweasel tab or > window) hangs iceweasel to the point that I can only go to a shell and > type 'killall firefox-bin' . Just happened to me this AM. I don't run IceWeasel, I removed it and switched to the plain vanilla Firefox from Mozilla. > > I don't switch back and forth from the nv driver to the nvidia one > that often. I'd prefer not to, as nv is too slow for what I want to > do. But, I've just recently had some rather inexplicable situations > where x11 has crashed, like I'll come home and find me in a kdm login > session) and the system is otherwise in an idle state when I'm gone - > usually only running one or two apps, plus the gl planet screen saver. > I only switch to the nv driver when X crashes, or I reboot, and X doesn't come up. Sometimes, I'll try to reinstall the nvidia driver and it won't work, so I stay with the nv driver. I used to use envy to install the nvidia driver, but it doesn't work with the lenny testing, only etch.. > Snce that uses gl, and amarok does as well (I think, for the graphical > feedback on the bottom of its screen, and so does mplayer. depending > on the video driver that's used, maybe there's a problem with nvidia's > drivers? maybe so:) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]