On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:58 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 14:48 +1000, Ric de France wrote: > > Iain, > > > > On 5/11/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > this is a wierd one - xscreensaver-demo locks up my laptop (for certain > > > screensavers only) but the actual screensaver works fine. > > I have seen it said that the AGP implementation can have something to do > with it. I suggest a google on "agp opengl xscreensaver" or similar may > help. > > disabling the opengl screensavers will at least get you through the > day :-)
the screensaver doesn't lock up, its just that xscreensaver-demo locks up, so I can't disable the screensaver (which is ok anyway) On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 07:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > You didn't mention what graphics chip you are using, ATI radeon 9700 Pro (in a Dell Inspiron 9100) lcpci: 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] > but you should > start with making sure that DRI is enabled and working. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes however: $ xdriinfo libGL is too old. Is this a problem? I did `equery belongs libGl.so` and it said ati-drivers, so I recompiled ati-drivers and ati-drivers-extra (again) but no avail. > Also if you are > using the ATI or NVidia drivers, make sure you have the latest > version. $ esearch -c ati-drivers [ I] media-video/ati-drivers (8.12.10): Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipsets [ I] media-video/ati-drivers-extra (8.12.10): Ati precompiled drivers extra application > And finally make sure that opengl-update is pointing to the > correct opengl libraries. # opengl-update ati Password: * Switching to ati OpenGL interface ... >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... [ ok ] as part of the ati wiki, and $ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5010 (X4.3.0-8.12.10) > I had hanging and crashing problems with my ATI Mobility 9600, and was > never able to resolve them. I finally gave up and rebuilt everything > with "-opengl". well, I don't quite want to go that far, considering it was working ok not long ago. I recompiled everything opengl related, as well as xscreensaver, and I also updated to 2.6.11-gentoo-r8. I checked my kernel options as per http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers and they're all ok. xscreensaver-demo still locks up. any more pointers anyone? Thanks so far, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
