OpenGL & RedHat 7.1

[Mark Myers]

Well, it's not a permission problem because it does the same thing when 
I try it as root.
And it appears to be running. Here is the output of glxinfo: 
http://members.home.net/nx54/glx.txt
Whenever I even highlight one of the screensavers that are suffixed 
(GL), my session freezes. The same thing happens if I try a game that 
uses OpenGL at all.
I know it works on my card because it worked fine under Win. I have 
installed XFree86 4 with 3D acceleration.
I don't know what gives.
Mark

Nathan England wrote:

>I agree the nvidia drivers are awesome.  I have a Riva TnT (the original
>16mb pci) but I traded it for an ATI Xpert 98 with 16mb because the ATI
>is a little quicker..
>
>My OpenGL is fine. I have been playing with RH 7.1 and my OpenGL works
>great.  When I get home I'll put my XFconfig file up here so you can see
>it and check it to yours.  
>
>Might just be something with glx permissions.  Sometimes they get
>screwy.
>Might want to try running
>
>glxinfo 
>
>in a terminal and see if it is running or not.  I think I also set mine
>to use the ATI Rage Pro instead of the XPERT, and then I use the r128
>module for X instead of the ati..  Makes a huge difference.
>
>
>nathan
>
>On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 11:02, Nigel Sollars wrote:
>
>>Ok what i would do is check what libGL drivers you are using i would guess
>>that the mesa ones are currently being used.  Im not sure if ATi support
>>this card under Linux as far as a gl / glx driver goes.
>>
>>I thik the removal of mesa would be a good idea.. i would also check the
>>gl/glx faq on the loki games site im sure your card would be listed there.
>>
>>for gl and glx support ive seen no better than the Nvidia drivers i think
>>other hardware manufacturers should take a leaf from Nvidia's book..
>>
>>Nige
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mark Myers wrote:
>>
>>>I have an ATI Xpert 128 AGP video card w/16MB RAM.
>>>When I used Windows, OpenGL was fine.
>>>Having switched to RedHat, anytime I try to run anything that uses 
>>>OpenGL, the computer freezes and I have to log in via a ssh connection 
>>>and reboot the computer.
>>>I have tried this both in RedHat 7.1 & Mandrake 8.0 & 8.1.
>>>Is there something special I need to do to get OpenGL working on my machine?
>>>Even the GL screensavers lockup the current session.
>>>My system is an AMD K6-2 450MHz, 256 MB RAM, 43 GB combined hard drive 
>>>space, and the ATI card.
>>>Any suggestions?
>>>Thanks.
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>PS Where is the spell checker in Mozilla 0.9.5?
>>>
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