02/03/2012 14:37, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > On 01/03/12 17:50, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> 01/03/2012 18:01, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >>> Hello All! >>> >>> I started to watch a DVD last night with VLC when the screen froze. >>> Nothing would work, neither the mouse nor the keyboard. I did a H/W >>> reset and rebooted the OS and VLC. I set the film to close to where >>> it froze and went on watching. A few minutes later, the computer froze >>> again. >>> >>> This time, after I had done the H/W reset and rebooted the OS, I started >>> using Kaffeine. No more problems. Then, this morning, I watched another >>> DVD using Kaffeine and again no problems. >>> >>> The version of VLC was 2.0.0 with KDE 4.7.2 and kernel >>> 3.2-7.towo.2-siduction-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT >>> I am using the siduction distribution which is based on Debian unstable. > >> Hi, what is the video driver in use (i.e. nvidia, fglrx, radeon, >> nouveau, intel) ? > Nvidia, AFAIK. > >> Did you try to launch vlc from the command line with "-v" option: >> >> vlc -v /path/to/video >> >> to see if it prints any error ? > No, I did not. > >> I had a freeze yesterday while using vlc, but it turned out to be a more >> general video driver bug. > I shall try Kaffeine next time I want to watch a DVD. > -- > Sian Mountbatten > Algol 68 specialist > >
Latest Nvidia binary driver (295.20) isn't exactly a good brew, several bug reports are appearing on different forums, NVidia site and Debian bug tracker [1]. It seems to be good at locking/crashing X, or even locking the system entirely. The most advanced investigation I read mentioned crashes when some processes fork. Another reminder of the risk associating with running closed-source drivers. [1] #661253 (link to other reports in posts) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f50e271.7070...@gmail.com