On Sunday 02 December 2001 04:19 pm, you wrote: Dex, Give me a couple of hours - doing chores - will get back to you in a bit.
> 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 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
