Upgrading to xfree 4.0 is a bad idea if you want to use OpenGL with your
G400, utah-glx doesn't work for xfree 4.0, and 4.0 has no hardware
acceleration for g400, only voodoo 3
Mike
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Eric Andreychek
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just joined this list.. I was wondering if there is an archive somewhere
> so I don't repeat any questions that others had.
>
> > > > So again: is there anyone with a stable (that is: stress tested non
> > > > crasheable BP6) on this mailing list? And is there anyone who has an
>
> I had a *rock-solid* BP6 system for 6 months. I ran everything on it, and
> never had a single unexplained crash, just the occasional devel kernel
> crashes.. which switching kernels fixed.
>
> What changed was that I put in a Matrox G400 Max (AGP) and a SBlive
> X-Gamer (PCI). Within a few hours of putting those in, it was crashing
> all the time, and has been ever since.
>
> The cards I had before the system started locking up were a Diamond
> Stealth Video VRAM, which is a 2D PCI card, and a Pro Audio Spectrum 16,
> which is an ISA sound card.
>
> The system is running very cool (30-32C for the CPU's), and I do have
> thermal grease on the BX chip, although I haven't yet found a 486 fan
> for it yet.
>
> The crashes only happen in X.. I've been playing the OpenGL game "bzflag"
> lately. I can play it for several hours, with no problem at all. It is a
> full screen game that you play from within X (and has sound). Within a
> few minutes to a few hours after I quit the game, my system will lock up.
> But as long as I'm in that game, no problemo. So that almost seems to
> point more to an X-Server/Window manager issue. I do use XF86_SVGA 3.3.6,
> along with Enlightenment 0.16.3. I may try switching to XFree 4.0 soon
> just to see what happens. First, I may try to figure out which of the 2
> cards is the culprit.
>
> Thanks for listening to me rant! It's good to know I'm not the only one
> with this issue =)
> -Eric
>
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