Mad Dog w/Radeon 7000 looses signal

[Jay Daniels]

Thanks,

I had a feeling it was hardware problem or radeon driver sense the
monitor started losing it's signal (the green light turned yellow and
screen went black).

Hasn't happen today, but if it happens again I'll switch back to the
G100.  The only reason I swapped is because I thought with the dvi32mb
of memory I could run true color with better performance, but as I noted
in true color the problem is more apparent.

What puzzled me was the fact that it never happened while using Gnome
w/sawfish and the keyboard seem to lockup (no lights).  Perhaps I didn't
give it enough time?  I do know hardware can cause some strange stuff
while using different applications. 

I once discovered while trying to compile KDE on another box my builds
were failing to compile because the processor was over-clocked.  The
computer would otherwise work perfectly in Linux or Windows.

I will continue to run xfce and see what happens.


jay


On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 16:11, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Jay,
> 
> I'm not very at ease with such problem reports because I would tend to
> say it's a driver problem (a quick search on google shows that the
> radeon driver has its problems too). I don't want to claim "it's not
> xfce, it's xfree", but the fact is that it's my first time I get such
> report.
> 
> As for gnome not showing the problem, it's not unusual that developpers
> use different ways to acheive the same goal. There is not only way to do
> things. The way xfce does thing *might* show a problem in the driver.
> 
> Of course all this is just a guess, as I have no clue ;-)
> 
> There are 2 branches of xfce, the devel and the stable. The stable is
> for xfce3 while the devel branch is for xfce4. If you want to download
> xfwm4, you can get it from xfce.sf.net (both tarballs or rpm)
> 
> However xfwm4 is still under developpment and I doubt it will fit your
> need with xfce v3.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier
>  
> On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 20:04, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > 
> > I have xfce installed and it works perfectly except for one problem. 
> > About once a day or so the windows go crazy and/or the monitor either
> > looses it's signal or the keyboard locks up - usually occurs while using
> > the mouse to page down. This requires hitting the reset button.
> > 
> > Currently using a ATI Mad Dog w/Radeon chip 7000 dvi32mb version and
> > RedHat 7.3 w/updates on an AMD 500mhz with 448MB RAM and fairly new Sony
> > 17in monitor 200ES.  Logitech Mouseman 3button ps2 mouse.
> > 
> > The reason for posting this here is because I never had a problem with
> > this box in Gnome.  Also, when I tried true color at 1024x768 the
> > problem was a lot more visible and would occur quiet often!  Now I have
> > it set to 1024x768 @ 16bit color and crashes are a lot less, like once a
> > day.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > I downloaded and installed the development version thinking it may solve
> > this problem, but it seems to be still using the old version of xfwm.
> > How do I get startx or startxfce to use xfwm4?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > jay
> >