[newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup
Hi everybody, I'd be grateful if somebody could please help me with the following problem. Every now and then ( once a day!) Xfree86 crashes on me. I may be inside KDE, doing my work or just browsing away in konqueror when it crashes and restarts and I get the graphical login. Sometimes it crashes during bootup, causing the computer to fall down into runlevel 3. What do you think is the likely reason? I can't find anything in /var/log/messages. My guess would be the graphics card setup. I have ATI Xpert 2000, 32 MB memory, 2xAGP I've set it up using Xfree 4.0.3, w.o. 3-D accel, and I've gone into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and commented out the lines where the glx and dri modules are loaded, but it kept crashing. Resolution: 1024x768, 16bpp. XFdrake detects the card as Rage 128. Should I be using that or should I be setting it to Xpert 99? (I'm testing that right now, getting some display artifacts, but no crashes yet). Or should I switch to Xfree86 3.3.6? I really appreciate your help, Narfi. - H. Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other setup info: Mandrake 8.0, I downloaded the 2 GLP CDs. Kernel 2.4.3, Xfree 4.0.3, 384MB memory, 466MHz Celeron, Intel440BX motherboard, Viewsonic E771 17 monitor.
RE: [newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.Narfi Stefansson Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup Hi everybody, I'd be grateful if somebody could please help me with the following problem. Every now and then ( once a day!) Xfree86 crashes on me. I may be inside KDE, doing my work or just browsing away in konqueror when it crashes and restarts and I get the graphical login. Sometimes it crashes during bootup, causing the computer to fall down into runlevel 3. What do you think is the likely reason? I can't find anything in /var/log/messages. My guess would be the graphics card setup. I have ATI Xpert 2000, 32 MB memory, 2xAGP I've set it up using Xfree 4.0.3, w.o. 3-D accel, and I've gone into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and commented out the lines where the glx and dri modules are loaded, but it kept crashing. Resolution: 1024x768, 16bpp. XFdrake detects the card as Rage 128. Should I be using that or should I be setting it to Xpert 99? (I'm testing that right now, getting some display artifacts, but no crashes yet). Or should I switch to Xfree86 3.3.6? I really appreciate your help, I am using the same card on 2 of my systems and have never had any X problems from them with any distro that I have installed. You should be able to use it with full 3-D accel, I do. I, when given the options such as with Mandrake will set the card as the Rage Fury AGP because basically that is what the 2000 is, but it also runs just as well if set-up as the generic Rage128.. Is there any other device on your system that is using the same IRQ as your vid card? Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
