> I'm running a rather fresh 4.2 (which came with redhat 7.3) > and I have a problem: Whenever I try to watch a movie (wether > it's avi or mpeg doesn't matter and I also used several movie > players) my computer freezes. First I get some blue distorsion > in the picture of the playing movie (sound is fine and > sometimes stays running after the freeze), then my whole > XServer and the keyboard freeze. This realy sucks, because I > could watch movies with 4.1 and everthing was fine. Now I have > the feeling something was changed with the new "ati" driver > and I don't have the know-how to fix this. I allready wrote a > full bugreport but until know got no answer so I thought I'd > ask around if this were a more common problem and somebody > knew a fix... I had similar freezes when playing avi files. For me the problem went away when I enabled Xinerama in XF86Config! (If I disable Xinerama, I can freeze my system reliably :-) Try something like this in the XF86Config: Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "true" EndSection HTH, Christoph _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
