On March 9, 2001 11:51 pm, you wrote:
> It ain't a hardware thing, and the 3dfx already has a heatsink.
> Various 16 bit resolutions and configured and I have Q3 UT SOF
> etc. all working fine in runlevel 3.
I recently noticed the same thing, whenever i'd start railroad tycoon
X would crash, this only happened in run level 5. I changed
to using gdm instead of kdm and it seemed to fix it,s o it looks
like a bug with kdm. Try changing to gdm and tell me if that
fixes it.
(Although I'm on RH7 now. Got sick of waiting for KDE2.1 updates)
>
> Thnaks anyway,
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Friday 09 March 2001 06:01 pm, Mike MacCana wrote:
> > > I have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000. In runlevel 5, whenever I attempt tp
> > > change to another configured reolution, X changes to that resolution
> > > and them promptly hangs. I can't even go to another virtual terminal to
> > > kill it.
> > >
> > > In runlevel 3, all is love (ie, its AOK)
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > Well other than that the motherboard, it's chipsets, and the monitor,
> > etc. down to the power supply and the oulet it's plugged into (hopefully
> > on an UPS), and how well it's all configured from the bios on up, all
> > have somethin to do with what you see on the screen, no ;>>
> >
> > I've got a 3 yr. old V3-2k pci on an BX motherboard oc'd 135%,
> > with X at 1024x768x16 and a very el cheapo ($150) 17" MagView. I just
> > tried C-A- +/- and it switched resolutions just fine. KDE2.1,
> > XF-4.0.2, LM7.2, 2.4.2
> >
> > The only thing I can think of that might help is the first thing to
> > do with a Voodoo3 is to take one sheet metal screw and use it to attach a
> > $2 cpu fan to it's heatsink. Other than that, I doubt the Vcard is the
> > culprit. Prob'ly the next most important factor is to not try'an run any
> > 3dfx card with X at any resolution more than 16bpp.
> > --
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> > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
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