Total system freeze when watch video only
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
mplayer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mplayer
I occassionally get a total system freeze (i.e. hard reboot required) when watching video. E.g. watching movies embedded in websites (e.g. discgolftv.com) and watching movies in Totem movie player.
I get very frequent system freezes when watching video via my Hauppauge TV tuner card and the MPlayer movie player. Following instructions from linuxtv.org, I use tzap to tune a dvb-t station and then launch "mplayer /dev/dvb/
It is only watching video that a freeze will occur. I never have had a freeze in any other scenario.
Currently running with the NV driver. I have tried restricted drivers however the same result applies.
Looking at other system freeze cases, I tried disabling /etc/init.
ASUS A7V266-E motherboard.
NVidia GeForce 7600GS AGP graphics card.
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1300 TV tuner.
mplayer media player.
Not sure what information is required so I have taken a stab. If there is anything that needs to be collected please just let me know.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP1700+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1477.415
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up ts
bogomips : 2957.58
clflush size : 32
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 21154 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
00:0f.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600 GS (rev a2)
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
dpkg -l nvidia-\* | grep ii
ii nvidia-
ii nvidia-
uname -a
Linux pvrsvr1 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux