From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263285AbTDLO4v (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:56:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263290AbTDLO4v (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:56:51 -0400 Received: from mrw.demon.co.uk ([194.222.96.226]:3456 "EHLO rebecca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263285AbTDLO4u convert rfc822-to-8bit (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:56:50 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Mark Watts To: Frank Van Damme , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: stabilty problems using opengl on kt400 based system Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:08:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200304121410.58522.frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <200304121410.58522.frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200304121608.33357.m.watts@mrw.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 12 Apr 2003 1:10 pm, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Hello, > > I have stability problems with my computer when using OpenGl applications. > First of all, this is the hardware I am using that may be responsible: > > - Motherboard: Soltek sl-75fvr with a kt400 chipset > - Cpu: Athlon Xp 2000+ > - Video card: Ati radeon 8500 retail, 64 MB ddr. > > Software I am using: > > - distribution: Debian Sid > - Xfree86: version 4.3, packaged in Debian packages by Daniel Stone > > - Linux kernel: version 2.4.21-pre5-ac3 > - Quake3 + urban terror, tuxracer (old version 0.6), xmms openGL plugins. > > The symptoms are as follows. Linux boots fine, the "radeon" kernel module > inserts with no errors. X also starts without problems and runs stably in > day-to-day work and during cpu-intensive tasks such as compiling. However, > if Istart running OpenGL applications (games) (quake,tuxracer or whatever) > themachine will freeze in anything from 2 minutes to an hour. The last > frame remains on the screen, but I can still login over ssh and reboot. > The drivers of this card are only stable since the latest XFree86 release, > butsince I had hours of crashless fun with that card on another motherboard > (anepox 7kxa which is now broken), and since the agp features of the kt400 > chipsetare only supported since kernel version 2.4.21-pre1, I supposed that > was thecause of my problems. > > Unfortunately I am unable to provide any useful error messages. The kernel > doesnot oops or panic, there are no messages on stdout/stderr, X's log file > does notshow anything, idem for syslog. I find only positive messages in > dmesg: > Mar 30 23:07:34 dionysos kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff > HartmannMar 30 23:07:34 dionysos kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to > use for agp memory: 203MMar 30 23:07:34 dionysos kernel: agpgart: Detected > Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipsetMar 30 23:07:34 dionysos kernel: agpgart: AGP > aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 > > Mar 30 23:07:44 dionysos kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on VIA Apollo KT400 @ > 0xe000000064MBMar 30 23:07:44 dionysos kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon > 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0Mar 30 23:08:02 dionysos kernel: [drm] Loading > R200 Microcode > > If there is anything I overlooked, further info I can provide, let me know. > > Thanks in advance, > > Frank Van Damme. I'm running a KT400 based board (MSI KT4 Ultra) with a GeForce 4 Ti4200 (agp 4x) on a custom compiled Mandrake 2.4.21 kernel. I regularly play games such as Unreal Tournament / UT 2003 and Neverwinter Nights and I have to say that stability and performance is excelent. I'm running Mandrake 9.0 which includes X 4.2.1, along with the latest nVidia binary drivers. I certainly don't see any of the kind of application/X crash you are reporting. In fact, I've played NWN for most of a day with nothing going wrong that can't be attributed to the beta status of the game (the game doesn't crash, I just get some graphical glitches which are fixed by reloading a saved game). If I can be of any more assistance, shout. Mark Watts.