[MPlayer-users] How to check why mplayer freezes the system ?

[Diego Zuccato]

Linards Ticmanis wrote:

> Make sure "magic sysrequest key" is compiled into the kernel and it's
> being turned on at boot time. Then, to unlock the keyboard hold SysRq
> (i.e. ALT+PRINT SCREEN) and press R. This bypasses the keyboard driver,
> unless the CPU itself is frozen dead (very rare) it should always work.
When my setup froze, even sysrq couldn't help.
BTW, I solved my freezing problems (wrt mplayer at least, mencoder still
sometimes freezes.. or I'm not patient enough...) just using alsa
0.9.12.

> There are a couple of other useful combinations with SysRq - it's best
> to print them out and hand on the wall as usually, when you need them,
> there's no way to find out which is which unless you have a second
> computer to use for looking it up.
If you're on a console (fb should be ok, too) use SysRq-Q .

BYtE,
 Diego.