Videos crashing X

[Nils Kassube]

Craig Puchta wrote:
> There seems to be no rhyme or reason to when this happens but I'll
> start up a video, regardless of player or video and X crashes and
> drops me back to GDM login screen. Sometimes though, it freezes X and
> I can hear sound but nothing on X works, Ctrl +Alt+Backspace won't
> even work when this happens.
> This can happen 5mins after logging in or 10 hours after logging in.

The machine might be too hot or it could be a problem of a bad memory. I 
can't tell you how to check the temperature, but you could at least check 
the memory. Reboot the machine and at the grub menu select the memtest 
option.


Nils