On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:16:06AM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote:
> > After a few hours, the machine will lock up if I have the drm module
> > loaded. It runs fine for days on end without it, so it's probably AGP
> > related. Lockups happen a lot faster if I run a GLX app that uses more
> > than a few textures. gears and similar run just fine, but something such
> > as QuakeForge will lock up the system usually within a minute. By lockup,
> > I mean that the machine no longer responds to the keyboard and the monitor
> > pops up its no signal message. SysRq commands still work, but remote
> > logins don't.
>
> I'm also seeing lockups with Quake3 on my ASUS P2B-DS dual Celeron board
> with my Radeon VE 32MB DDR.
Actually, what is REALLY freakin' weird is that it seems to work just
about to the point that I start typing something, at which point the next
thing I type has to start with SysRq because it's locked tight.. It's
truly bizarre, and nobody seems to have the slightest idea what could be
causing it. I've tried every suggestion I've been given at least once -
some with disasterous (but fixable, thankfully) results like changing AGP
driving strength. Setting it to the suggested value caused the box not to
boot at all. Old ISA video card to the rescue.
I suspect we're seeing different problems, and I've pretty much concluded
that whatever the hell is wrong, it's specific to my particular setup.
It'd most likely take someone with an identical motherboard and video card
(possibly also running at 100MHz as I am running it) to duplicate the
problems I am having. I'm keeping my eyes open, but at the same time I'm
looking into the possibility of a PCI card to replace my Voodoo2 and
possibly some sort of setup that way.
> Sometimes it will play fine for a few CTF games, but it will usually die
> somewhere in the game. It seems to die either one of two ways -- either
> the screen will go blank or become corrupted (for example, scanning the
> first scan line for the entire screen while my second head on a PCI
> card remains fine), or the screen will just freeze.
>
> In the latter case, the machine will not respond to sysrq. In the
> former case, it will, and I can unmount and reboot cleanly.
[..]
> I have yet to see anything die while I'm not playing Quake 3, so it seems
> GL-related. I suppose I should try running UT for a while and see if
> similar lockups occur.
Well, if yu manage to track down the problem, I would be interested in the
result. How does it work if you disable the use of the second head?
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