videolan crash

[Gildas Bazin]

On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:23 pm, jean ribiere wrote:
> As an other user I am using KDE and a video card TNT2 with
> drivers NVIDIA-1.0-1251.
> 
> If I configure vlc with "--enable-esd" I have messages :
> "module: locking module 'esd'
>  /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy"
> but generally, at least the first time, vlc continue and the
> video is correct but no sound.
> 
> If I kill the task using /dev/dsp (arts) or if I configure vlc
> without "--enable-esd" I get a core dump before any image.
> 

One of the first things you can do to trace the problem is to play with vlc's 
options.

For example you can try to run: "vlc --noaudio" or "vlc --novideo", you can 
also try to use different output plugins: "vlc --vout x11" or "vlc --aout 
dsp".
Try different combinations of options to have a better idea of what exactly 
is creating the problem.

One other usefull thing is to use the verbose option of vlc: "vlc -vvvvv" 
This can give you error messages that are useful clues about what's going 
wrong. If you suspect something strange in this debug log, you can send it to 
this list.

--
Gildas