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#1 2010-09-16 13:24:17

jon.wulf
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Registered: 2009-07-03
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VLC locking system.

Hello,

I am running 64bit Arch and as of this morning VLC locks up my system - I mean a COMPLETE lock, turn off at the wall lock-up. I am using Gnome with Compiz Fusion and at first thought it was to blame. Other media players like MPlayer work fine, but if I try to view a video in VLC the screen freezes. VLC was last updated several days ago and I last Syu'ed yesterday morning. Last night everything was fine, this morning nothing seems to work - I have Syu'ed and reinstalled VLC several times.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Jon

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#2 2010-09-16 13:40:11

wonder
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Re: VLC locking system.

what video driver do you use? this sounds like is an issue with nvidia driver but when you are using some package that is from aur.


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#3 2010-09-16 13:44:17

jon.wulf
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Re: VLC locking system.

My cards an Nvidia Geforce GTX 260, if I remember correctly I installed nvidia-96xx from the repos when I setup the system. Though it's been a month or two since I set up my computer.

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#4 2010-09-16 13:45:41

wonder
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Re: VLC locking system.

jon.wulf wrote:

My cards an Nvidia Geforce GTX 260, if I remember correctly I installed nvidia-96xx from the repos when I setup the system.

in that case you don't have to use nvidia-96xx. that's the legacy driver for 8 years old cards.

you need "nvidia"


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#5 2010-09-16 13:59:07

jon.wulf
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Re: VLC locking system.

I checked, I actually already had nvidia as opposed to nvidia-96xx. I reinstalled the driver and it still crashed, however on a hunch I disabled compiz completely (before I was just killing the processes) and rebooted. Everything is fine now and I can live without compiz.

Thank you for the help.

Jon

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