Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:05:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Erin E Conn <econn@nc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebooting problems with /dev/cxm0 Message-ID: <20060423080525.38121.qmail@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <444ADD11.9060104@nc.rr.com>
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--- Erin E Conn <econn@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Actually, turns out the X server crashing was due to an xscreensaver > upgrade and it was crashing whenever the screensaver kicked in. I > reinstalled xscreensaver and that seems to have fixed it. It does appear > that my system is more stable using dd to /dev/null, and indeed cat to > /dev/null doesn't seem to cause any problems either. I got a lot of dma > buffer warnings when using a blocksize of 1 byte, but 1m seemed to be fine. > Hmm... Does that mean, that the "dd" command can run for hours now? If yes, I would do a "dd if=/dev/cxm0 of=/path/to/huge/filesystem/movie.mpg bs=1m" for some hours (if the resolution is 720x576 it produces 4GB/h)... -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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