I've been there mike, there is two ways to remidy this. If you have a
graphics card that you can get linux drivers for, you can have hardware
accel. which would be the best route. The second way is to get an upto
date version of Mesa (open source opengl) http://www.mesa3d.org/
it is stable but the really slow without hardware accel. but it
should't
lock your system. :) Can you remote login to your sys when it crashes?
here is a list of some graphics chipsets that are supported :
------------------ DRI dri.sourceforge.net
3dfx
Supported Chipsets
* Voodoo 5
* Voodoo 4
* Voodoo 3
* Banshee
ATI
Supported Chipsets
* Mach64 (Rage Pro)
* Rage 128 (Standard, Pro, Mobility)
* Radeons up to R9200 are supported
Intel
Supported Chipsets
* i810
* i810-dc100
* i810e
* i810e2
* i815
* i815e
Matrox
Supported Chipsets
* G200
* G400
* G450
------------------ DRI dri.sourceforge.net
NVidia
NVidia provides their own closed source, binary drivers.
--- Mike Schieuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> So, I've been running Red Hat 7.3 on my IBM laptop for a while.
> Until tonight
> I've never tried running an OpenGL app. So tonight I installed
> Quake3 Arena
> and it just hangs on a black screen. I tried a few other OpenGL apps
> and
> found the save thing. It totally hoses the X server. I can't Ctrl
> Alt
> Backspace or Ctrl Alt F2 to switch out of the X server. Not even
> Ctrl Alt
> Delete will get a response out of the box. Thusly a hard boot insues
> and I
> try something new. Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> Mike
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Ted Katseres
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