[NCLUG] DRI...

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:22:52AM -0600, Benson Chow wrote:
>The next problem is that it crashes for no apparent reason after running
>for a while.  This, probably is a problem ;-)  I should just upgrade to
>4.3 - since the setup I have just barely works, lots of warnings, hacks,

Upgrading to 4.3 probably won't help...  I'm running 4.3 on an i830
chipset, and it also is crashing once every 3 to 4 days.  I think it's
only when I suspend.  Sometimes I come back from a suspend and it dumps
me back to the login screen.

>And of course my desktop with a GF4MX420.  Yeah. I know, it sucks.  I hate
>it saying "Tainted" when I lsmod(8) but at least I got the card for
>free... and it blows the i830m away, even at 24bpp 1280x1024...

Yeah, the performance of the i830 chipset is not very good, particularly
at 3d stuff.  My laptop, the ThinkPad x30 has the i830, but the newer
and older ones have the Radeon.  For me, the ability to add the second
battery was more important than 3d though.

Sean
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