Michael Thomson wrote:
1. Watching TV using either xawtv or zapping results in random short stripes of video being drawn outside their respective windows, but these vanish when the screen is repainted (e.g. after a window is 'wiped' across the artefacts). 2. After watching TV for a while (minutes not hours), I start getting segfaults either from open applications or on launching new ones. 3. Given enough time (again in minutes), my machine is pretty much guaranteed to either hang hard or crashes!
I had the same symptoms and it was flaky hardware. In my exact case, a bad memory stick. Changing it made everything fine and has been for years. (like you, I was setting up a crappy old box for TV stuff)
Please let me know what other information and what steps I should take to track down the source of the problems!
Run this overnight: http://www.memtest86.com/ -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@xxxxxxx ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/ "Have some riot gear. On the house!" - Chief Wiggum
