Re: [Cooker] FlightGear bombs my xserver

2001-09-04 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

Joal Heagney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
 
  It runs gracefully on the 3dfx (tdfx) configuration.
  
   Self-installed NVIDIA drivers from tgz on a PCI Creative TNT2 VANTA with 32
   MB.
  
  Yes. Closed-source sucks.
 
 Okay. *excited* Are you saying that there is an opensource 3d driver for
 the NVIDIA videocards? I've just installed a NVIDIA TNT2 Vanta card, and

Yes there is, with XFree-3.3, but it has really nothing to do with a
production level one. It just sucks ass, but this time because of
performance et al.

 while I like the 3D acceleration, I'm sick of it occasionally taking out
 my xserver. I improved things a while back by upgrading from KDE2.1 to
 KDE2.2, and again by upgrading the glibc's. (I'm running a hybrid
 LM8.0/Cooker system - with buggy packages in 8.0 replaced by more up-to
 date packages from Cooker.) The biggest gripe I have with the NVIDIA
 drivers is that they don't seem to build against the post 8.0 kernels.
 *sighs* Maybe it's time I upgraded from X4.0.3 to X4.1?

I'm using a 3dfx-3 card, I occasionally play Quake3 and I never have any
X-server abort.



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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/




Re: [Cooker] FlightGear bombs my xserver

2001-09-04 Thread Joal Heagney

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

 Yes there is, with XFree-3.3, but it has really nothing to do with a
 production level one. It just sucks ass, but this time because of
 performance et al.

Okay, so not worth it then.

  while I like the 3D acceleration, I'm sick of it occasionally taking out
  my xserver. I improved things a while back by upgrading from KDE2.1 to
  KDE2.2, and again by upgrading the glibc's. (I'm running a hybrid
  LM8.0/Cooker system - with buggy packages in 8.0 replaced by more up-to
  date packages from Cooker.) The biggest gripe I have with the NVIDIA
  drivers is that they don't seem to build against the post 8.0 kernels.
  *sighs* Maybe it's time I upgraded from X4.0.3 to X4.1?
 
 I'm using a 3dfx-3 card, I occasionally play Quake3 and I never have any
 X-server abort.

Mine's more of a x-server hang, where I can't get either keyboard or
mouse to respond. It usually happens at 100% cpu utilisation. (I.e. in
the middle of a game.) Then I have to *shudder* cold-boot. *sighs*
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Re: [Cooker] FlightGear bombs my xserver

2001-09-03 Thread guran

On Monday 03 September 2001 22:37, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:


  Self-installed NVIDIA drivers from tgz on a PCI Creative TNT2 VANTA with
  32 MB.

 Yes. Closed-source sucks.

Yes, what a pity - thanks
guran
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Re: [Cooker] FlightGear bombs my xserver

2001-09-03 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

guran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi
 
 VERSION (rsync ftp.uninett.no)
 /ChangeLog/1.562/Thu Aug 30 20:45:22 2001//  
 Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20010903 19:18 
 
 I launched FlightGear, and listened to the music and all that, then I opted 
 for close the file, got a new box and clicked OK, and it takes down my 
 xserver.

This is due to the X server.

 Anybody else experienced 'the blitz'.

It runs gracefully on the 3dfx (tdfx) configuration.
 
 Self-installed NVIDIA drivers from tgz on a PCI Creative TNT2 VANTA with 32 
 MB.

Yes. Closed-source sucks.


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/




Re: [Cooker] FlightGear bombs my xserver

2001-09-03 Thread Joal Heagney

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

 It runs gracefully on the 3dfx (tdfx) configuration.
 
  Self-installed NVIDIA drivers from tgz on a PCI Creative TNT2 VANTA with 32
  MB.
 
 Yes. Closed-source sucks.

Okay. *excited* Are you saying that there is an opensource 3d driver for
the NVIDIA videocards? I've just installed a NVIDIA TNT2 Vanta card, and
while I like the 3D acceleration, I'm sick of it occasionally taking out
my xserver. I improved things a while back by upgrading from KDE2.1 to
KDE2.2, and again by upgrading the glibc's. (I'm running a hybrid
LM8.0/Cooker system - with buggy packages in 8.0 replaced by more up-to
date packages from Cooker.) The biggest gripe I have with the NVIDIA
drivers is that they don't seem to build against the post 8.0 kernels.
*sighs* Maybe it's time I upgraded from X4.0.3 to X4.1?
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