[MPlayer-users] Why do mplayer and xine crash my X server?

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:30:18 -0500 (CDT)
"Joshua M. Kwan" <joshk at mspencer.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Running xine or mplayer (or even xscreensaver for some reason) will 
> totally crash my X server! I have no clue why, there are no errors in 
> .xsession-errors, directing mplayer output to a file gives nothing out of 
> the ordinary. I'm totally stumped.

I guess your X driver is broken.
Are you using nvidia ?

			Attila Kinali
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