Great, let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
>John, have you try with games that don't use the DRI, like clanbomber or
>pingus, they also crashes X due to the full screen!!!, but your experiment
>dissabling DRI seems to be a very good clue, perhaps those games I mentioned
>before don't use DRI, but if it is activated DRI is the responsible of the
>resolution change and because that it hangs X.
>
>Very good experiment! according to the scientific method :-).
>
>I think the conclusions are very solid; I will send this message also to
>Guillaume Cottenceau, he said me that I was using a Voodo3 3000 (exactly the
>same that the mine) with XFree86 4.0.3 without problems; I thought that I
>could have a special problem due to my hardware, but the last messages are
>showing that the problem is generalizated with XFree86 4.0.3 (and I had the
>problem also in beta 2 with 4.0.2) and Voodoo3 3000 (also probably with 2000).
>
>I hope Guillaume could give as the way to solve the problem or the way to
>communicate it to XFree86 team.
>
>If some of us find the solution, this list could be a goog meeting point.
>
>See you soon
>
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>Francisco Alcaraz
>Murcia (Spain)
>
>
>El Martes 01 Mayo 2001 00:44, escribiste:
>> You're right. This is what I've done thus far to try to isolate the
>> problem:
>>
>>
>> Problem:
>>
>> When changing resolutions X server crashes and restarts. when loading
>> Quak3 xserver crashes and restarts. when loading Chroimium in windowed
>> mode everything works fine including DRI, when Chromium is switched to
>> fullscreen mode, X server crashes and restarts.
>>
>> Tests made:
>>
>> 1. Switched card with another known good Voodoo3. Same problem.
>>
>> 2. Commented our Load "DRI" from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Can switch
>> resolutions without X server crashing, however Quake runs EXTRMEMLY slow
>> becasue there is no DRI device to use.
>>
>> 3. Remove DRI comment and problem returns
>>
>> 4. Comment Load "GLX" from XF86Config-4. Problem persists.
>>
>> This may not be the best troubleshooting in the world, but it convinced me
>> that the DRI in X 4.0.3 is what was causing my problems.
>>
>> Not to say that DRI is not working, because Chromium will work in windowed
>> mode. More specifically I think the problem is that changing resolutions
>> while using DRI is what is casuing the crash. This can be seen from step
>> 2 above. what do you think?
>
