Re: Gnome locks frequently / disable acceleration

["Ian T." <itschaotic yahoo ca>]

I don't have any acceleration and or 3d support in this configuration, at 
least as I understand it.  It sure won't play the games that require it..<g>  
I've been trying to enable it by going to the NVidia drivers but have given 
up for the time being.  

Only 24/day apparently.  Ian.

On December 16, 2001 08:48 am, you wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Try disabling hardware acceleration on X server, if applicable and
> you have not yet tried it. And try disabling sound card.
> It makes X much more sleepy, but has helped me time-to-time.
> Also scan the net a bit (google?) about you video card/Linux support
> - often you may find some configs that work.
> 
> If you can identify buggy driver, you may want to report bug to
> XFree86 or kernel (OSS or Alsa) people. But if you want it to be of any
> use, you probably have to be mad about technical details. I.e.
> write down chip numbers of both affecting device AND motherboard, 
> include /proc/pci output etc. etc. - if it is known/fixed bug, they can
> easily throw your message away, for unknown bugs any bit of info can
> give a hint ;-)
> 
> Best wishes,
> Lauris Kaplinski
> 
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 02:00, Ian T. wrote:
> > Hi all.	
> > 	I've been watching for fix for this as well.  I'd love to run Gnome as 
it 
> > has features I really like.  However I can't run it reliably because of 
these 
> > lockups.  
> > 	I can't do anything but to hit the reset button on the power.  
ctrl+alt+bksp 
> > is of no use.  Nothing is.  I can't get to a virtual terminal to kill the 
> > process and I can't use the mouse.  I can't make it repeat on cue.
> > 	Where might I look for evidence?  Below is the evidence left in 
> > ~/,xsession-errors on a dummy account I set up.  Or at least I think this 
is 
> > the evidence.  <g>
> > 
> > 	I'm running RH 7.2 (Enigma) with 2.4.7-10 kernel.  I have a P2 266 
(kalamth) 
> > with 384 megs of ram.  The main board is a SOYO SY-6KB if that makes the 
> > slightest difference.  <g>
> > 
> > 	I have no visible trouble on boot up.  Any clues or relevant links would 
be 
> > apprecaitated.