Hey.. found a fix for the radeon thing a few weeks ago!! (sorry for the lame delay in reply; been real busy) Apparently there is just one little thing overlooked (for the architecture of my laptop at least)... brett@ThinkBox % cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep flags flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm Hmm... i don't see anything about AMD or 3dnow or 3dnowext. I have a Pentium4 chip. So there's one little (or huge, rather) environment variable that i found out about called MESA_NO_3DNOW. Hmm, guess what? I `export MESA_NO_3DNOW='Y'` and all my opengl problems (which are illegal hw instructions) just seem to... *disappear* Yay! So i was hoping that this little flag may help some other radeon/mesa users who have seen similar problems and been unable to use any opengl apps. HTH, lion-O On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:45:41PM -0800, Brett Campbell wrote: > > Hmm, looking at the changelog there seem to be quite a few radeon fixes. > i don't know if any of them pertain to opengl exactly, due to my limited > knowledge of graphics software. Thank you greatly for the suggestions... > > JakeB, i noticed a few other opengl apps (i've never seen before, and still > haven't yet :/ ) segfault and refuse to start (tuxracer for instance). i had > hoped it wasn't an xfree issue. :-| > > Well, thanks again.. i'll wait and watch. I can't wait to actually *use* > 3dDesktop one day :-) Awesome. > > Brett > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0800, Jake B wrote: > > I'll have to try that, I havnen't upgraded yet > > > > Bart Dorsey wrote: > > > > >Are you running XFree 86 4.3? You might consider giving it a shot. > > > > > > > > >On Friday 07 March 2003 11:24 pm, you wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Brett, I think there are serious issues w/ the opengl drivers for the > > >>Radeon 7500 Mobility... I get segfaults on several different programs > > >>that use opengl. BZ Flag, the ping pong game, and 3d Desktop. I have > > >>gotten all of these to run w/o issue on my friend's Nvidia. I also have > > >>a Thinkpad a31. I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it short > > >>of writing the drivers ourselves. > > >> > > >>~Jake B > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ''Wisdom is the companion of patience'' > > ,-~~-.___. > / | ' \ > ( ) 0 > \_/-, ,----' > ==== // > / \-'~; /~~~(O) > / __/~| / | > =( _____| (_________| > > Brett Ryan Campbell > Systems Administrator, CAD Research Center > Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 > http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/frameset_content/content_about_us.html -- ''Wisdom is the companion of patience'' ,-~~-.___. / | ' \ ( ) 0 \_/-, ,----' ==== // / \-'~; /~~~(O) / __/~| / | =( _____| (_________| Brett Ryan Campbell Systems Administrator, CAD Research Center Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/frameset_content/content_about_us.html