Yep, you heard me right....crashes at idle.....mine is a smp machine.... but 3d works and i think..."think"...i have hunted about all the power tweaks down but it still crashes daily at idle.....when i had rh7.1 it was like(dying at idle too) that until i turned all the power saving junk off with no screensaver.... but i think that i have found them all but if i turn screensavers off it still goes to like dpms mode..... its all turned off in the bios.....all turned off in the config file.... but 3d works good
dan On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 15:19, Dexter Filmore wrote: > 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? 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