[MPlayer-users] mencoder often COMPLETLY locks up my machine

[Frederick Grim]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:44:55PM -0400, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
> 
> > did you try things like:
> > (esp. since you can telnet into the box)
> It's not ME the one who can telnet into the box. When I say "completly",
> I mean completly. Else I's say smt like "locks the keyboard" (or X
> session, or terminal...).
> > -> boot laptop w/o X
> > -> make sure you have all messages to syslog
> > -> telnet in and run top
> > -> telnet in and run tail -f /var/log/allmessages
> > -> telnet in again and run truss mencoder
> Simply, the three terminals lock. No messages :-(
> I'm getting mad with this lockup...
> 
> > Use a relatively stable kernel
> 2.4.18-acpi - it's the best I tried till now. Older ones didn't support
> proper ACPI management and often reached temp limit.
Try getting rid of acpi and see if it still happens?  I imagine you may
have done this but I have had problems with the disk stuff in the acpi modules...Those 
things are still pretty buggy is my understanding.

                                             Fred