Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>]

Luke-Jr wrote:

> On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:14, you wrote:
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> > Luke-Jr wrote:
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> > > The ATi Radeon 9200 works fine...
> > >      
> > Lucky you.  Mine doesn't.  Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable,
> > and the performance is apalling too.
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> Hm, well I don't have DRI enabled on my primary desktop... just on a second 
> one dedicated to gaming. Not sure if that makes any difference...
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> > So I'm looking for something else - a radeon 7000 is cheap .  . .
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> That'll outperform a 9200? ;)
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Actually yes, because something is clearly wrong.
The pci 9200 SE can run tuxracer at 640x480 - not smooth
but playable until it locks the machine after a few minutes.

The AGP matrox G550 is better, it runs 1280x1024 tuxracer
with a unknown but noticeable higher framerate.  According to
people I talked to before, the 9200SE is supposed to outperform
this, even with a pci bus.  But it is not even close and I don't
bother running 3D on it any more due to the hanging.

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> > And don't say that a crash during a 3D game isn't important -
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> A system crash? Worst I've ever seen was a X crash, back before I got my X 
> configs good. If you mean a game crash, I wouldn't know... half the time it'd 
> probably be my fault. ;)
>  
I don't mind a game crash - I can always find another game.  But it will
at least screw up that card so bad that I need a reboot to get
a working xserver running on that display.  Typically, the
crash ends with a 99% cpu loop in the kernel, a blocked display,
and perhaps the other xserver gets in trouble too.

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> > it is a two-user machine and the other user is not amused when this happens.
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> Maybe he would be if it showed a BSOD? :p
>  
Nope.  A windows crash isn't any "better", and they are used to
the linux-level of stability anyway.

Helge Hafting
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