[TAG] OpenGL hangs my system

[Thomas Adam]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:54:32 +0100
Dylan the Hippy Wabbit <dylan.wabbit at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi All,

Hello - 
 
> You complained about not getting many problems sent you.  Should have
> been careful what you wished for!

Bring it on!

> Sometimes they will run for a few minutes before locking up. 
> Sometimes Tuxracer won't even get to the 'Press any key to continue'
> screen.  If the program is running windowed, everything else visible
> freezes too.  Any game soundtrack that is running loops on the last
> moments.

I see you're running Debian. I would:

``
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
''

and answer NO to framebuffer support.

> Once I've hit trouble I can't quit X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nor can
> I switch to a virtual console to reboot.  In case it was just the
> display processor that crashed, I've tried typing a restart command
> 'blind' but with no effect.  I wasn't surprised, the fact that the
> sound was also affected made me suspect that it wasn't just a failure
> to refresh the screen.

This suggests RAM issues to me -- have you run memtest86 lately?

> Any ideas?  Apart from the obvious inconvenience, I can't recommend
> Linux to disillusioned Windows sufferers in good faith can I?  ;-)

It's also worth checking /var/log/XFree86.0.log as well, but I suspect
this is a RAM issue...

-- Thomas Adam

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