GL Kills my box?

[Robin Laing]

Adam Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:54, Adam Cooper wrote:
> 
>>I have been trying to get an opengl game (vegastrike) to run on my
>>system. However whilst i've been trying to get this to work i seem to
>>have lost all opengl capabilities. When running any opengl app the
>>computer immediately freezes with no output to screen. Being a relative
>>newb i have no idea how to exit said freeze (ctrl alt F* doesn't get me
>>anywhere) and so i have to restart. GLXGears as well as tux racer freeze
>>as well. How can I fix this problem? Are there any logs that may be of
>>use? 
>>
>>I'm running Kernel 2.6 on a P4 2.6 512MB
> 
> 
> I'm sorry to bring this up again guys but it is a continuing problem for
> me. Before this problem I had set a GL screen saver so now when ever
> this kicks in my computer locks forcing a reset. I cannot change the
> screen saver using the screen saver tool as this shows a preview and so
> locks the box forcing a reset.
> 
> Added to that the fact I can't play any GL games means this is starting
> to get *very* annoying.
> 
> I'm running the Intel 845G chip-set and on-board sound.
> 
> Cheers 
> Adam
> 
> 

Having had a similar problem I think that the answer is more obvious. 
  3D direct rendering isn't working on your video card.  I had the 
same problems and it wasn't until I wanted to play a specific game 
that I knew this.

What kind of video card do you have?

Try running glxinfo and see what you get for a reading.

I spent a month trying to get an ATI 9600 to work with 3D and gave up. 
  I changed cards to a Nvidia and was running in less than 1 hr.

-- 
Robin Laing