Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 07:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 05:11 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It'll probly never go to 64 even if it set higher. Set aperature to 4mb and it effectively disables sidebanding. Often that cures many AGP problems. Tom, I went and googlized

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:32 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: No ;) Can't say I understand it any better than you, but I can copy'n paste ;) :-) Thanks, thats along the lines of what I found. Lots of hits were advocating disabling it, if it wasn't already. My sons comps both have Geforce 2's

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 11:03 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've got a Ti4200 with 64 megs of Ram, 4X AGP and I've had lots of instability issues... First I thought it was memory (and partly was - I guess - cpuburn wouldn't run longer than 2 mins). So in came the Corsair DDR memory. Then I

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 00:41, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:03 pm, ed tharp wrote: and what are we doing about acpi, apm, apic, both in BIOS and software, and what is the AGP settings? also, does this MoBo bios rest to defaults when it crashes? (I mean when you have to

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 June 2003 07:20 am, ed tharp wrote: what about agp memory aperture? I have a 64 meg Ti4200 Nvidia card so I set the aperture to 64 megs. Is that okay? -- /\ Dark Lord

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:53 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 07:20 am, ed tharp wrote: what about agp memory aperture? I have a 64 meg Ti4200 Nvidia card so I set the aperture to 64 megs. Is that okay? -- /\ Dark

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 9 2003 02:44 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: i don't know if it applies to linux but in windows 128 is normal...not matter what size your video ram is. Tho 64 is safe if you feel 128 is pushing it too hard. It'll probly never go to 64 even if it set higher. Set aperature to 4mb

[newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message, caught signal 11, fatal server error. Sometimes it crashes sitting still, no games

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:46:28 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message,

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 14:52:21 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hmm, I'd like to know how to tell the difference? well, I am only basing that theory on the fact that x is not crashing when you first open it, but later on, perhaps by something running in the background. I couldn't

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:46 AM 6/8/2003 -0400, you wrote: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message, caught signal 11, fatal server error. Sometimes it

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 18:49, FemmeFatale wrote: At 11:46 AM 6/8/2003 -0400, you wrote: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:46, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message, caught signal 11, fatal server

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 June 2003 06:49 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Try disabling DPMS? Thats what i'd do first off... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:03 pm, ed tharp wrote: and what are we doing about acpi, apm, apic, both in BIOS and software, and what is the AGP settings? also, does this MoBo bios rest to defaults when it crashes? (I mean when you have to power off by the switch, if ever?) Acpi and apic are

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:09 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Have you check the system logs to see what's also happening at the same time you're crashing? And, BTW, have you double checked your lib path settings in the /etc/ld.so.conf and the likes? Have you rerun ldconfig? Have you run updatedb?

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:37 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 06:49 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Try disabling DPMS? Thats what i'd do first off... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2001-02-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Bill: Is it feasible to add some more RAM? You are right at the minimum for an X system -- another 32 mb would make a big difference. Is there lots of HD activity whenever you start an application? You should also start with minimum screen resolution, and work up from there. Regards, cmg Bill

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2001-02-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Sent from OE to see if HTML is a problem - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X crashing problem Bill: Is it feasible to add some more RAM? You are right at the minimum

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2001-02-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Sorry about this posting - I was concerned that I might be guilty of the deadly HTML sin, so I decided to send this to myself while I was in OE; I didn't mean to send it to the list. cmg Carroll Grigsby wrote: Sent from OE to see if HTML is a problem

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2001-02-17 Thread Bill Clark
RAM will be the next thing. I changed graphics cards to a Cirrus Logic GD5429 with 1 meg memory. I can start X and use DrakConf without it freezing now. Except the display is all screwed up. The screen shows up on only the lower half of my monitor and the icons are really big. I tried