Re: This has to be a bug...

From: Karel J. Bosschaart <karelj_at_kayjay.xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:29:11 +0100
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:37:43PM -0500, Justin Smith wrote:
> >
> >What video hardware are you using? I have a Geforce4 using the
> >nvidia driver and got used to crashes while starting games. Once the
> >game is up however I can't remember that I ever had a crash. It's difficult
> >to make a guess how frequently this happens, but since installing the
> >UT2004 demo (about a week ago) I had only one crash while starting the 
> >demo.
> >I have no idea how to reproduce these crashes :-(.
> >
> >
> >>time after a fresh install of it), it corrupts the file system in a way 
> >>that requires one to manually run fsck. The first time I used the 
> >>America's Army, even the manual fsck couldn't fix the fs corruption: 
> >>there was a message "unrecoverable softupdates error".  I was able to 
> >>mount the partition, back up my data, rebuild the file system, and 
> >>restore the data.
> 
> 
> Good point! I'm using a GEForce 2 card with the Nvidia driver. The only 
> other time I got crashes like this was when I tried to run 
> graphic-intensive applications under CURRENT (with debugging code turned 
> on). So the nvidia driver might be responsible.
> 
> Thank you! (I'll just have to close all the windows when running this...)

Did a quick test:

I installed AA2 on my system and started it 10 times on 4.9, 10
times on 5.2. On 5.2 it would start successfully all 10 times, but on
4.9 it failed 4 times causing a reboot. Looks like the familiar thing
I see with other games as well but definitely with a higher probability
of failing. Some things are different on my installations:

4.9: linux_base 8, Nvidia AGP
5.2: linux_base 7, FreeBSD AGP

and probably more things, but my suspicion is that the difference in AGP
setup might cause the trouble. Setting up AGP though is a sort of black
magic: just try and see if it does not crash is the usual way... :-(.

Karel. 
Received on Sun Feb 22 2004 - 11:27:27 UTC

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