On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:07:08 -0800, Les wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I am attempting to move my whole network to F8... Yes, I know that > something stable might be better, so lets skip those comments, OK? > > My current issue is with an HP Pavillion a8010n AMD K8 system with > Silicon Integrated Systems video on board, 1G of memory. It all seems > to work fine until (while following Finley's configuration site), I > install mplayer and mplayer codecs. At that point, when I bring up > video on the suggested bbc website, the system hangs. No error > messages, no control whatever, function keys will not return control, > and I have to power down to reboot. At this time I am running the > memory test on the system just to eliminate that possibility. Following > the pulse audio on going debate, I haven't seen anyone quite mentioning > the issue I am seeing. After this memory test runs, I will see if I can > see the error logs using chroot with the rescue mode of the F8 DVD. Any > suggestions on how to proceed will be gratefully accepted and followed. > > Regards, > Les H Don't know if it's related to your problem. but I did notice mplayer crash a few times while watching full length avis. Not right away but some 30-40 minutes into the movie, and not at the same place, but each time I was able to kill it with Ctrl-C at the prompt, or with killall from another shell, when in full screen mode. I don't have to look into it until the weekend, but the first thing I'll try is to disable pulseaudio and run mplayer with plain alsa to see if it still crashes.
