Videos crashing X

[Karl Larsen]

Craig Puchta wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone else is having this issue or how I go about
> finding out what is causing this.
>
> 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.
> I just don't even know where to start looking, logs? But what ones?
> Any ideas?
>
>   
    Hi, please send us some information that will help. You have a 
hardware problem. Please in a terminal write $ lspci | grep VGA and 
place it in a reply.

    Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log but it is hard to read :-)

Karl


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