On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:54, Adam Cooper wrote:
I have been trying to get an opengl game (vegastrike) to run on my
system. However whilst i've been trying to get this to work i seem to
have lost all opengl capabilities. When running any opengl app the
computer immediately freezes with no output to screen. Being a relative
newb i have no idea how to exit said freeze (ctrl alt F* doesn't get me
anywhere) and so i have to restart. GLXGears as well as tux racer freeze
as well. How can I fix this problem? Are there any logs that may be of
use?
I'm running Kernel 2.6 on a P4 2.6 512MB
I'm sorry to bring this up again guys but it is a continuing problem for me. Before this problem I had set a GL screen saver so now when ever this kicks in my computer locks forcing a reset. I cannot change the screen saver using the screen saver tool as this shows a preview and so locks the box forcing a reset.
Added to that the fact I can't play any GL games means this is starting to get *very* annoying.
I'm running the Intel 845G chip-set and on-board sound.
Cheers Adam
Having had a similar problem I think that the answer is more obvious. 3D direct rendering isn't working on your video card. I had the same problems and it wasn't until I wanted to play a specific game that I knew this.
What kind of video card do you have?
Try running glxinfo and see what you get for a reading.
I spent a month trying to get an ATI 9600 to work with 3D and gave up. I changed cards to a Nvidia and was running in less than 1 hr.
-- Robin Laing
