Sorry to hear you haven't been getting useful help on the NG.  I've been over 
XF86Config-4 and XFree86.x.log, and I can't see anything blatantly wrong in 
either of them, so I'm as lost as you are trying to find this bug.  I hope 
this anti-3dfx zealotry isn't mandrakesoft's official position.  A lot of us 
can't affort to run out and buy the latest and greatest video card every 6 
months, and the voodoo still works very well, given the right drivers.  



On Monday 23 April 2001 20:02, you wrote:
> been having this myself...i have fiddled and poked and made it go away only
> for it to come back
> initilally i turned acceleratrion off and then manually re edited the
> XF86Config-4 to enable it again. This worked until i used the kde control
> panel to edit an unrelated thing ( cant see how this is possible but it is
> the only common thing i can find) as it is now.....sometimes it works
> sometimes it doesnt, and the only thing i can see as being guilty is kde
> control panel??????????.
> i havent been very scientific ( who wants to lock their system up on
> purpose for the sake of experiment) but it seems that now i can change res
> or run games until i change something in the control center then BOOM it
> goes wrong again. At no time does my XF86Config-4 change. I have been
> posting on the mandrake newgroup about this for 3 weeks now ( since beta 3)
> and no answers have come. It seems that there are an awful lot of nvidia
> nazia out there who sneer when our voodoos go wrong. I thought one was
> meant to use betas and report bugs so they can be corrected, in this case
> the attitude is very much " shut yer bitchin gob". Perhaps X4.03 is guilty
> perhaps kde, perhaps the mandrake setup process ( after all no one would
> describe drakconfs display page as a shining example of the best mandrake
> has to offer).
> i realise this doesnt help but we are not alone...sooner or later someone
> who really does know linux will spend 30 secs on this and solve it:)
> When i first posted about it on the NG, response varied from " you are a
> pratt mandrake is flawless and could never have made an error" to "its a
> beta, chill out, shut up and all will be well"
> good luck
> i will share in detail anything remotely useful as i come accross it.
>
> On Monday 23 April 2001 23:47, Will wrote:
> > Ok, I installed mandrake 8.0 with xfree 4.0.3.  It's using the tdfx
> > driver for my AGP voodoo3 card.  Whenever I try to switch resolution via
> > ctrl alt plus/minus or an app tries to switch resolutions, the  x-server
> > crashes. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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