So your machine works fine but when it sits there doing nothing, it crashes, did I get that right? In that case I'd say there's something wrong with power management. But that's just guessed, hand me some details.
@Fred Bazolo: maybe one could not see it - would you mail me your XF86config? DF Daniel Shipton schrieb: > dex, > can you run even like the glxgears or anything.....mine runs quake3 very > good...i haven't had any trouble with the 3d accel part but instead with > the stability of just leaving it sit idle for periods of time...... > > dan > > On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 11:07, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > But the card works fine when running 3D games in Windows (if you got Win ;-) ? > > Asking because it sound rather like you had a temperature problem with your CPU > > (those AMDs get hot, tho they're fast) - did you ever check out? > > So from what I get is you have the same graphics board as me, you've got an VIA > > chipset just like me and an Athlon CPU (tho I have a classic, not a TBird). > > Hmm. would you do me a favour and mail your XF86config to my mail add? > > > > > > Fred Bazolo schrieb: > > > > > I'm as far as possible from being any kind of programmer so please bear with > > > me. I also have the ATI 64 meg AGP VIVO card and trying to get the wonderful > > > 3d acceleration out of it that it's capable of has been a challenging > > > experience. > > > > > > However, there is at least one situation that works pretty well. The D1X > > > version of Parallax's "Descent" game - a demo which comes with the SuSE > > > Professional 7.3 distribution - works great, almost flawlessly (640x480 works > > > great, 600x800 seems a bit shaky, and above that the game disappears). I > > > haven't a clue why, but maybe one of you who understand these things can > > > follow this lead somewhere. > > > > > > Everything else either doesn't work at all, or only for a little while. Even > > > "Tux Racer" leads to a machine lock up if played too long (like ~10 minutes). > > > Don't know about the standard "DOOM", because I've never been able to get it > > > working. I also have Loki's "Descent 3" but have never had any successs with > > > it, with RH 6.3, RH 7.0, RH 7.1, RH 7.2, Mandrake 8.1 or Suse 7.3 - although > > > it does seem to get better with each advance in OS distribution. Right now > > > with SuSe 7.3 - to the extend that the project has gone - the problem is the > > > abysmally slow frame rate, which makes the game completely unusable. > > > > > > 2D works fine, of course. I have a home-built machine: 1.2 gig Athlon Tbird, > > > ~760 megs ram, 20 gig HD, KDS monitor, SOYO K7VTA-B mb, A4 Tech optical > > > mouse, standard keyboard - is that everything? > > > > > > Hope this info helps in some small way. > > > > > > On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:35, you wrote: > > > > > > ...9 out of 10 times I try to fire it up. I just recently subscribed > > > > here, so I guess there has been a lot of discussion about X and this > > > > board. > > > > Does anybody have a genuine solution for this? I tried dozens of > > > > workarounds, the only one that worked was to disable acceleration, but > > > > no need to tell this is highly unsatisfying. > > > > If somebody has a working Radeon with a similar configuration, please > > > > let me know. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Newbie mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > > > -- > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > > Version: 3.12 > > GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ P>++ L+>++ E- W++ N- o? K? w--(---) !O > > M-- V? PS+ PE+++(++) Y+ > > PGP- t+(++) 5 X+(++) R++(+++) tv--@ b++ DI+++ D+ G(--) e* h(+) r%>* !y+ > > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > Nothing fights like the opposition > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ P>++ L+>++ E- W++ N- o? K? w--(---) !O M-- V? PS+ PE+++(++) Y+ PGP- t+(++) 5 X+(++) R++(+++) tv--@ b++ DI+++ D+ G(--) e* h(+) r%>* !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Nothing fights like the opposition _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
