On: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:02:01 -0600,
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm using XF86 4.2.0 on "Linux 2.4.19-pre2 i686" with a Matrox G450 AGP 32MEG
> > DDR/DH, when I play RTCW the game freezes a short while in. It's usually few
> > min into the game, maybe 2 or 3 min. The kernel is up, (i.e. I can telnet in
> > and reboot the box, or use magic sys-rq).
>
> the same thing happens to me, with just about any game. Rune, Quake3,
It works fine with Quake3, Chromium and GLTron for me. Only the "RTCW
Demo" causes this freezes for me.
> Half-Life, etc.
> freezes up after 2-20 mins.
> haven't tried TuxRacer or Chromium yet.
> lower-intensity things like Atlantis & glxgears don't cause this problem.
>
> My system is a 1.1Ghz; what about yours? perhaps it's only higher data rates
> that cause this. (maybe the developers were all on 500MHz boxen).
Mine is a 1.466Mhz Athlon XP - SiS board.
> lots of other people have the same problem.
> I hear that there's no one really maintaining the Matrox code at the moment
> tho, and I don't know enough about device drivers, let alone graphics
> hardware, to debug this.
I reported some Mouse Pointer issues with the G200 and G400 - but got
no reply ... :-(
> I'm actually willing to buy a G450 card for someone who can debug the
> driver competently.
>
> Carl Soderstrom.
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