Re: [xine-user] crashing

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, james middendorff wrote:

> I have a compaq 715us laptop with cdrw+dvd combo
> drive, everytime I start xine, on any distrobution I
> install the laptop freezes and I have to manually
> reboot? Is there any way I can solve this problem, I
> am a newbie and I have uninstalled what the distro
> installed and installed the sources of the newest
> version and it still locked up the laptop. Please help
> I would like to watch dvds soon....

quoting the FAQ:

5.5.1 Why does xine crash my machine - hard?
      xine doesn't crash your machine. As a user space program without root
      permissions, it can't.
      What actually crashes your Machine is your X server. You're probably
      using a Savage chipset, which seems to have a broken Xv implementation.
      If you avoid using Xv, your System won't crash, so as a workaround, run

        xine -V xshm

      This will unfortunately be much slower, as lots of things are now done
      in software instead of hardware scaling/colour space conversion.

      Maybe at the time you read this, there's an XFree upgrade which fixes
      this for the Savage driver. In that case, you can switch back using

       xine -V xv

      If that works for you, please notify the xine crew at
      <xin...@li...>, so they can update this FAQ!