Salut Hubert > I don't think this is going to help you much but anyhow, > I have an AGP Powercolor 32MB DDR Dark Wizard (ATI Radeon 7000) with > Suse 7.3 using Xfree86 4.2. When I enable DRI and try glxgears it would > always crash my system. X works fine. In my case, I seemed to have a > problem with my motherboard (some DMA issue with my Harddrive I think). > What I did to fix it (extreme I know...) was to switch motherboards with > my other machine (from a SOYO to an Asus P5A-B). I wouldn't expect yours > to be the same problem. Is your problem totally solved by changing the mother board ? What scares me is that I have dual boot and my PC works fine under Winblows 98SE ! For me linux is less stable than win98SE !! ;-) > Your config file looks fine (assuming you do have a Vision Master 400 > (Iiyama), and that your mode lines are correct. that's ok ! > Does X crash or does it crash only when you run something that is 3D > accelerated? (e.g. glxgears, tuxracer etc.) 3D acceleration work slike a charm, X works like a charm my only problem is that I can't leave X without a PC crash. > Does X crash if you have dri and glx disabled? If it does then probably > something to do with your general X config. it works also with 3D accel disabled. > I hope find a solution that is less drastic as mine (I had a feeling > something was wrong with my motherboard for a while since it gave me > alot of headache with other stuff). I hope too. I'll try to play with DMA settings but I hope this problem won't cost me any piece of hardware. thanks Yann
