Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:22:50 -0400 Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: > > > Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the > > > BIOS and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe > > > I'll remove mem=nopentium. > > > > Maybe it will solve my troubles too h yep time to fix it > > till it breaks *grin* > > > > > > James > > AGP 4x works OK. > > I also noticed that the XFree86 upgrade replaced the "official" Matrox > drivers with the XFree mga drivers. One more thing to evaluate. > > -- > Hoyt Hoyt- Sounds like before I trash this install and try again (ext3 is not working well. The crashes are really messing with it's head.) I'm heading to my nearest Cooker site and running urpmi! James > > http://www.maximumhoyt.com > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Sunday 23 June 2002 05:22 pm, Hoyt wrote: > On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: > > > Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS > > > and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll > > > remove mem=nopentium. > > > > Maybe it will solve my troubles too h yep time to fix it till it > > breaks *grin* > > > > > > James > > AGP 4x works OK. > > I also noticed that the XFree86 upgrade replaced the "official" Matrox > drivers with the XFree mga drivers. One more thing to evaluate. Just incase someone at Mandrake is reading I recently moved from SuSE to Mandrake. Mandrake's video setup is superior to SuSEs. My ATI Rage R128 AGP was selected automatically and 3D acceleration was installed. The acceleration works beautifully when I run Tux or fly with FlightGear, etc I have disabled it, however. These are the reasons why, all of which deal with the operation of of the desktop when a 3D program is not being run: 1) Most mouse actions cause Klipper to popup, which gets very aggrivating. 2) Accompanying some mouse actions, like clicking to place the text icon, causes in brief, almost instantaneous, freeze of the desktop. 3) When running MediaPlayer mouse actions cause pausing, skipping and/or popping of the sound. 4) Realplayer play backs exhibt the same skipping and popping with mouse actions. SuSE's 3D acceleration was a lot harder to setup, and envolved adding manual tweeks to the XF86Config file, inserting a couple of load options, but I never had mouse interaction problems while running on the desktop. I think this is because MDK's configuration of the ATI Rage R128 appears to exhibit active acceleration even when not running a 3D app. ??? Anyway, it doesn't matter to me because I rarely use 3D. I just wanted to pass this along in case there was a solution out there or if the MDK folks need to make a tweek somewhere. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: > > Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS > > and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll > > remove mem=nopentium. > > Maybe it will solve my troubles too h yep time to fix it till it > breaks *grin* > > > James AGP 4x works OK. I also noticed that the XFree86 upgrade replaced the "official" Matrox drivers with the XFree mga drivers. One more thing to evaluate. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Friday 21 June 2002 13:30, Tom Badran wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:23 am, Hoyt wrote: > > Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker > > (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? > > Dont know if it would help, but cooker packages have been recompiled with > gcc 3.1 so you will get lots of screw ups if you try to use them with 8.2 > which was all compiled with 2.96. Alot of the core libraries are no longer > binary compatible so will break a large amount of software if you try to > upgrade. > I updated the XFree rpms with those from cooker without any apparent problems -- it hasn't crashed yet Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll remove mem=nopentium. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
