Quoth Matthew Garman, > > I bought a Matrox Millenium g450 over the summer. I got it setup to do > hardware accelerated 3d with XFree 4.x. > > The only real 3d apps I've used are the "glxgears" test program, and the > 3d screensavers that can be built with the xscreensaver package. > > Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedly lock up my system---and I > mean *completely* lock up my system, can't ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to switch to a > text console, I can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace, etc. Nothing works. > > Obviously I don't like lockups like that, since I have to restart my > computer without shutting down properly. > > Anyone know what might be causing this? Is it likely a hardware problem? > Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing?
I have also experienced similar problems from time to time. It seems somewhat dependent on X version (or maybe just on the mga driver). I have no idea what causes it, or how to fix it, but I thought it might be worth letting you know it's probably not just flakey harware on your part. cheers. damon -- Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne Homicide is, no matter what else it might be, a social relationship. -- Paul Bonnana
