After a little more testing, I found that GDM doesn't cause a crash on 
mode-switch, so if you have Gnome installed, you can still have a graphical 
login.  Maybe this bug is an interaction between the Voodoo3 driver and KDM?

A related bug - I changed /etc/sysconfig/desktop from "KDE" to "Gnome", and 
my login manager did not change.  No luck setting it to "GNOME" either, so I 
added the line "preferred=gdm" at line 38 of /etc/X11/prefdm.  Hard-coding 
the login manager is hardly the optimum solution, but it works for me.


On Tuesday 01 May 2001 23:37, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
> Guillaume, Will Reinhart ,another user of Mandarke 8.0 with a Voodoo3 3000, 
> has made a very interesting discover; I has started in text mode (console 
> mode) and runing then startx the problem of full screen has dissapeared.
> 
> I have tested that and actually works (full screen in Clanbomber, Pingus, 
> Pinguin command, Gltron, Tuxracer, Quake III.... ^_^ ; so perhaps the 
problem 
> is not exactly the DRI in XFree86 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 in a computer using 
Voodo3 
> 3000; it is possible that the graphical login (kdm?) is having conflict in 
> this equipments.
> 
> What do you think? and what can we do (I actually like the graphical 
login!).
> Is there any way to start in a different graphical login to test that?
> 
> Thanks for your attention, yours sincerely
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
> 
> El Mar 01 May 2001 15:26, escribiste:
> > Not a real fix, but running "startx" from the console instead of booting
> > directly into X seems to work around the problem.  I was able to play
> > tuxracer in fullscreen mode without crashing now.
> >
> > On Monday 30 April 2001 17:44, John Kloian III wrote:
> > > You're right.  This is what I've done thus far to try to isolate the
> > > problem:
> > >
> > >
> > > Problem:
> > >
> > > When changing resolutions X server crashes and restarts.  when loading
> > > Quak3 xserver crashes and restarts.  when loading Chroimium in windowed
> > > mode everything works fine including DRI, when Chromium is switched to
> > > fullscreen mode, X server crashes and restarts.
> > >
> > > Tests made:
> > >
> > > 1. Switched card with another known good Voodoo3.  Same problem.
> > >
> > > 2. Commented our Load "DRI" from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  Can switch
> > > resolutions without X server crashing, however Quake runs EXTRMEMLY slow
> > > becasue there is no DRI device to use.
> > >
> > > 3. Remove DRI comment and problem returns
> > >
> > > 4. Comment Load "GLX" from XF86Config-4.  Problem persists.
> > >
> > > This may not be the best troubleshooting in the world, but it convinced
> > > me that the DRI in X 4.0.3 is what was causing my problems.
> > >
> > > Not to say that DRI is not working, because Chromium will work in
> > > windowed mode.  More specifically I think the problem is that changing
> > > resolutions while using DRI is what is casuing the crash.  This can be
> > > seen from step 2 above.  what do you think?
> > >
> > > --
> 
> 

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