BTW, I did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 tonight and tried aging the
startx from console and low-and-behold it things work again. not the way
I'd like them 'casue for my workstation i like the graphical login but at
least I can play quake III so I'll stick with 8.0 from here on out!
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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Will wrote:
After a little more testing, I found that GDM doesn't cause a crash on
mode-switch, so if you have Gnome installed, you can still have a graphical
login. Maybe this bug is an interaction between the Voodoo3 driver and KDM?
A related bug - I changed /etc/sysconfig/desktop from KDE to Gnome, and
my login manager did not change. No luck setting it to GNOME either, so I
added the line preferred=gdm at line 38 of /etc/X11/prefdm. Hard-coding
the login manager is hardly the optimum solution, but it works for me.
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 23:37, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
Guillaume, Will Reinhart ,another user of Mandarke 8.0 with a Voodoo3 3000,
has made a very interesting discover; I has started in text mode (console
mode) and runing then startx the problem of full screen has dissapeared.
I have tested that and actually works (full screen in Clanbomber, Pingus,
Pinguin command, Gltron, Tuxracer, Quake III ^_^ ; so perhaps the
problem
is not exactly the DRI in XFree86 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 in a computer using
Voodo3
3000; it is possible that the graphical login (kdm?) is having conflict in
this equipments.
What do you think? and what can we do (I actually like the graphical
login!).
Is there any way to start in a different graphical login to test that?
Thanks for your attention, yours sincerely
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El Mar 01 May 2001 15:26, escribiste:
Not a real fix, but running startx from the console instead of booting
directly into X seems to work around the problem. I was able to play
tuxracer in fullscreen mode without crashing now.
On Monday 30 April 2001 17:44, John Kloian III wrote:
You're right. This is what I've done thus far to try to isolate the
problem:
Problem:
When changing resolutions X server crashes and restarts. when loading
Quak3 xserver crashes and restarts. when loading Chroimium in windowed
mode everything works fine including DRI, when Chromium is switched to
fullscreen mode, X server crashes and restarts.
Tests made:
1. Switched card with another known good Voodoo3. Same problem.
2. Commented our Load DRI from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Can switch
resolutions without X server crashing, however Quake runs EXTRMEMLY slow
becasue there is no DRI device to use.
3. Remove DRI comment and problem returns
4. Comment Load GLX from XF86Config-4. Problem persists.
This may not be the best troubleshooting in the world, but it convinced
me that the DRI in X 4.0.3 is what was causing my problems.
Not to say that DRI is not working, because Chromium will work in
windowed mode. More specifically I think the problem is that changing
resolutions while using DRI is what is casuing the crash. This can be
seen from step 2 above. what do you think?
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