[MPlayer-users] konsole freezes

[anton]

>If Linux itself hasn't locked up, then pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del will unmount your 
>filesystems properly, shut down and restart nicely, so you should always try 
>that before hitting reset.  If it's just X11 that's locked up though, you can 
>try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace which will usually kill X.
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Cheers. I always all but play Beethoven's 9 on the key board before 
hitting the MassMurder button ;-)

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>I've certainly had problems with mplayer, but those that caused my computer to 
>lock up were eventually tracked down to hardware problems (e.g. when 
>overclocked, my computer runs everything fine except for mplayer, which often 
>locks everything up - clock back down and the problems go away.)
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I certainly do have hardware issues. Even though I'm not overclocking at 
all it just overheats and cuts out when I do any encoding (under doze or 
linux), unless I have my fan cranking hardcore (I finally ripped the fan 
off yesterday and squirted some more cooling gel on the cpu, but to no 
avail... it gets up to about 80C before cutting out!!!). Usually this 
lets me get an encode in, unfortunately konsole (by far my preferred 
terminal), and kde in general, seems to be crashing rather a lot these 
days, even with all the bug fixes! Argh! And I just decided that I 
really did prefer kde to gnome!
Cheers
Anton

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>I'd suggest you try using xterm for a while instead of Konsole, in case it's 
>Konsole's fault.  If it still locks up in xterm it's either a hardware fault 
>or a driver bug - it's very unlikely (though not impossible) to be mplayer, 
>because nobody else has mentioned a similar problem yet.
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>>No problems using gnome-terminal, but then again, the first rip I did this
>>morning using konsole when hunky-dory.
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>Oh ok - well I suggest you keep using gnome-terminal or whatever because it 
>could just be luck that it didn't lock up.  If it does keep locking up in 
>Konsole though and nothing else, then it looks more like a bug in Konsole.
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>>I'm confused.
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>Bugs like this have that effect ;-)
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>Cheers,
>Adam.
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