Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups
Matthew Garman wrote:
> Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedly lock up my system---and I
> mean *completely* lock up my system, can't ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to switch to a
> text console, I can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace, etc. Nothing works.
>
> Obviously I don't like lockups like that, since I have to restart my
> computer without shutting down properly.
>
> Anyone know what might be causing this? Is it likely a hardware problem?
> Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing?
I have a G400 and I used to (long time ago) have that sort of thing
happen. It was more frequent with my TNT2ultra at the time. Lately I
haven't had problems (in fact, some speed improvements). I'm running
linux 2.4.10 and X 4.1.0.1.
Do you have the ability to telnet/ssh in? That's usually how I was able
to fix it cleanly... but sometimes it wouldn't let you do that either.
--
Mike Brownlow ><> http://www.wsmake.org/~mike/
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