Re: This has to be a bug...

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:29:11 +0100, Karel J. Bosschaart 
<karelj_at_kayjay.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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

Here too on -CURRENT, it works fine on any OpenGL apps and games as long I 
use libc_r, FreeBSD AGP and set AGP 2x in BIOS (because of VIA chipest).

Cheers,
Mezz

> 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.


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