Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles

2008-07-09 Thread stabbyjones
2008/7/10 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > stabbyjones wrote: >> >> before i can log a bug i need to work out what's going on. is there a >> system log i can check for a system freeze? i've never had such a >> harsh crash before. >> >> when i'm playing videos my computer locks up and goes bla

Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles

2008-07-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
stabbyjones wrote: before i can log a bug i need to work out what's going on. is there a system log i can check for a system freeze? i've never had such a harsh crash before. when i'm playing videos my computer locks up and goes blank. X crashed to a commandline once so i thought it may be my xo

Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles [resolved]

2008-07-09 Thread stabbyjones
heres how i fixed it. -after checking the 'Xorg.0.log' log one thing i noticed was a warning that direct rendering hadn't loaded which is strange as i'd made sure it was running when i started playing around yesterday. it may have been from me changing the ati (fglrx) driver from 8.6 to 8.4 and so

Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles

2008-07-08 Thread Lachlan
thanks, i'll give the log a look when i get home and see what i can find. the vesa driver was one thing i forgot so i'll look into that was well. this was my first ATI card and it's worked quite well for the 6 months since i bought it. this last week has been the first major issue i've had. On We

Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles

2008-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/08 17:57, stabbyjones wrote: > before i can log a bug i need to work out what's going on. is there a > system log i can check for a system freeze? i've never had such a > harsh crash before. > > when i'm playing videos my computer locks up an

heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles

2008-07-08 Thread stabbyjones
before i can log a bug i need to work out what's going on. is there a system log i can check for a system freeze? i've never had such a harsh crash before. when i'm playing videos my computer locks up and goes blank. X crashed to a commandline once so i thought it may be my xorg, dpkg-reconfigure