On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:13:36PM +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote:
>    It has happened, though it's extremely rare, that even though I shut
> down firefox, that mplayer won't behave. In these extreme cases, I need
> to shut down X and restart it. When I do, all is fine again.

If mplayer doesn't start, does it work if you force it to use x11
instead of xv? E.g. -vo x11.

Joerg