I downloaded the cube program to play around with, which uses OpenGL. I have an Asus V7700 card, with the latest NVidia drivers. When I play the game, either the graphics card and/or the monitor seem to be shut down. The screen goes black and the LED flashes on yellow. The ASUS site says that the video card is probably driving the monitor at a higher refresh rate than it can handle. I''m not sure I believe this. Has anyone else seen this? My specs are: P3-700 Abit BH6 256Mb Crucial Memory SBLive 3Com Network card I thought that maybe their was an IRQ clash somewhere between the graphics card and say the sound card. I do get stuttering and pauses in games. Is there a way to limit the refresh rate the OpenGL uses under Linux? Thanks http://www.stodge.net - the powerhouse in personal commentary

My ASUS 7700 runs without problem in Linux (with an old monitor no less), so it''s probably just a setup problem. In /proc/pci, Look at the IRQ''s if you want to check them. You can also get some information about your video card in /proc/nv/card0. Now for lots of little simplistic questions: You did install GLX while you were installing the drivers, right? Do you get hardware acceleration for X (I''m assuming yes)? Have you tried a non-fullscreen OpenGL application? Are you able to drop to a terminal during this event (ctrl+alt+1, for example)? What does trying to kill X (ctrl+shift+backspace) do?

I''ll check those files. Yes I installed glx, and I tried both windowed and full-screen apps, neither of which work. I do have accelerated X performance (thank god!). I couldn''t get a terminal or kill the X server. At least I''m not sure; there''s no signal to the monitor so the monitor shuts down and only rebooting will bring it back.

Thanks for your help




http://www.stodge.net - the powerhouse in personal commentary

According to /proc/pci, the soundcard and serial bus controller are sharing IRQs (IRQ 11), but everything else seems ok.

And from the other file:

----- Driver Info -----
NVRM Version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2313 Tue Nov 27 12:01:24 PST 2001
Compiled with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
------ Card Info ------
Model: GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
IRQ: 5
Video BIOS: 02.15.01.07
------ AGP Info -------
AGP status: Enabled
AGP Driver: AGPGART
Bridge: Intel 440BX
SBA: Supported [disabled]
FW: Unsupported [disabled]
Rates: 2x 1x [2x]
Registers: 0x1f000203:0x00000102