Roland Scheidegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Rudin wrote: >> Most opengl programs will run for a minute or two, then my whole >> desktop freezes up. The system is still up - I can ssh to it, but the >> console is completely unresponsive. Any tips for diagnosing and >> (hopefully) fixing the problem please? Here's my xorg.conf: > That's a classic gpu lockup.
> Those are hard to debug. You can try upgrading to latest drivers > (dri/ddx/drm). I have the lastest from debian unstable. > You say "most" opengl programs - some specific ones which > run forever or crash fast? Well - all the ones I've tried exhibit this behaviour, and none run forever. Because of the lock ups I've not tested extensively, but certainly googleearth, blender and amaya cause the problem. > The 8500 in particular is a somewhat delicate card (as opposed to > 9000/9200), as it needs some driver workarounds for hw bugs which > are likely not quite done right in the driver under some > circumstances (though that shouldn't affect "simple" apps like > quake3). HW failure (either insufficient cooling or just bad > hardware) is another possibility (try other drivers / OS to rule it > out). This card worked fine under Windows for gaming, admittedly in a different system, so conceivably it's hardware, but I doubt it. TBH, I don't especially need anything very fast for this machine, so if the problem isn't easily fixable I might just buy a cheap, somewhat more recent card. _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
