To answer your question my 3d support works fine. I have an nvidia tnt2
8M card. I was having problems until their newest set of drivers, but i
started getting sig 11's after I installed them. I went back to the
regular XFree86 "nv" driver to try to see if the problem is nvidia's
drivers. Thanks for the code. I tried to put an xterm as my last line in
the .xinitrc file like someone else suggested. For some reason that
hangs my system for about 5 min. when I first start blackbox. I couldn't
have that. Hopefully this will work better. By the way, I compiled a
kernel without any problems, I'm wondering if the problem is hardware or
if it's blackbox.
Seann wrote:
>On Friday 26 October 2001 17:52, you wrote:
>
>>On 26-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote:
>>
>>>Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 26-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>One other question. Blackbox has been crashing on me with signal
>>>>>elevens fairly often recently. Any idea on what that is? Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>a sig 11 is a nasty one. Causes run from memory corruption to
>>>>overheating, from compiler error to other types of compiler error.
>>>>
>>>>So, try recompiling it. What changed? glibc, kernel, .....
>>>>
>>>The only thing that's changed as far as software goes before I started
>>>having the problem is that I installed nvidia's drivers for my card
>>>instead of the 'nv' driver that comes in XFree86. I also installed a new
>>>cdrom. I did those two things at about the same time and I've been
>>>getting crashes since then. However, my memory was only about three weeks
>>> old, didn't see any crashes during those 3 weeks but maybe it's starting
>>>to act up now? I'm going to try to compile the kernel a few times and see
>>>if I get them during that. Thanks for all the suggestions.
>>>
>>The driver change could be behind this, although I doubt you are the only
>>nvidia owning blackbox user.
>>
>>Thing is, sig11's are annoying. Literally it is 'sigbus' which means in
>>some random place the machine did something it did not understand, kind of
>>like a segfault. Could be you put a misaligned word into a buffer or it
>>could an xray hit the 3rd byte of memory while it was being written. As
>>you can see it is quite hard to identify. Happy hacking.
>>
>
>
>Well, I'm running on a R128 GL accellerated server, and recently I've also
>received many signal 11 crashs (I made a small C program to while(1){} to
>just take up space in my .xinitrc file (Example configs at bottom).
>
>That simply makes it so when blackbox crashes, it doesn't take X and the
>world with it. It's a cheap hack, but I do believe we have something in
>common, my 3d support has been knocked off recently (not any ti
>
> does y
>
>me to find out
>why, except for the missing GL librarys in X11R6/lib/extentions). --Too the
>point, does your 3d work still? If not, did you crash before you noticed
>your 3d support konqed out?
>
>
>(
>#~/.xinitrc:
>#!/bin/sh
>blackbox &
>
>-----
>
>//loopy.c
>//compile with gcc loopy.c -o loopy
>int main(){
> while(1){
>
> }
>return 1;
>}
>)
>
