GL Kills my box?

[Michal Zeravik]

I have similar problem, but only with screensaver.
When I click on anyone in kde screensaver chooser,
X crashes and spawn itself to new session.
glxinfo. glxgears and other gl apps are running well.

Running athlon 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_38.rhfc1.at,
5336 nvidia on geforce4 4800 se.

michal


Robin Laing wrote:

> Adam Cooper wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:54, Adam Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> I have been trying to get an opengl game (vegastrike) to run on my
>>> system. However whilst i've been trying to get this to work i seem to
>>> have lost all opengl capabilities. When running any opengl app the
>>> computer immediately freezes with no output to screen. Being a relative
>>> newb i have no idea how to exit said freeze (ctrl alt F* doesn't get me
>>> anywhere) and so i have to restart. GLXGears as well as tux racer 
>>> freeze
>>> as well. How can I fix this problem? Are there any logs that may be of
>>> use?
>>> I'm running Kernel 2.6 on a P4 2.6 512MB
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry to bring this up again guys but it is a continuing problem for
>> me. Before this problem I had set a GL screen saver so now when ever
>> this kicks in my computer locks forcing a reset. I cannot change the
>> screen saver using the screen saver tool as this shows a preview and so
>> locks the box forcing a reset.
>>
>> Added to that the fact I can't play any GL games means this is starting
>> to get *very* annoying.
>>
>> I'm running the Intel 845G chip-set and on-board sound.
>>
>> Cheers Adam
>>
>>
>
> Having had a similar problem I think that the answer is more obvious. 
>  3D direct rendering isn't working on your video card.  I had the same 
> problems and it wasn't until I wanted to play a specific game that I 
> knew this.
>
> What kind of video card do you have?
>
> Try running glxinfo and see what you get for a reading.
>
> I spent a month trying to get an ATI 9600 to work with 3D and gave up. 
>  I changed cards to a Nvidia and was running in less than 1 hr.
>