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02-14-2008, 12:22 PM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Seba Beach Alberta Canada
Distribution: Fedora 16
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Full Screen Programs Crash on Fedora 8 x86-64
I originally posted this on the FedoraForum, but I did not get all that good results.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=180743
Does anyone have any suggestions to my problem?
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02-14-2008, 02:16 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Indiana
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
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Get a better video card, an nVidia or ATI based card is a good idea for playing games.
FYI: "OpenArena, Xmoto, Urban Terror and etc" are games. this could not possibly affect your "brothers schoolwork"
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02-14-2008, 02:35 PM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Seba Beach Alberta Canada
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I was thinking about that solution myself, though It is annoying that we have to buy another piece of hardware (Especially that I want to buy a Video Card for my Computer as well).
When it comes to School Work, I am worried about how VMWare would display (We have to run Windows programs for School). WINE also does not display properly, which could cause problems.
Last edited by Chargh; 02-14-2008 at 02:42 PM.
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02-14-2008, 03:14 PM
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Since the issue is with the video driver, it does not matter what you run(under linux) you are going to have the problem. Running wine/vmware/whatever is not going to matter until you get this issue cleared up. Switching to Nvida is really your best option. S3 has not been very helpful in providing drivers or information. This means that someone with an S3 card has to work his way through making a new drive. Since S3 cards are such a minority, it is so cheap and easy to replace the card, it is unlikely that a cure will be available for your card any time soon (if ever).
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02-14-2008, 06:37 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Indiana
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One can try seeing if the xorg-x11-drv-openchrome package is installed;
rpm -qa xorg-x11-drv-openchrome
If yes, then as root from runlevel3 type something like;
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/my_backup_xorg.conf (one wants a backup copy JIC!)
system-config-display --reconfig --set-depth=24 --set-driver=openchrome_drv
If not then try; yum install xorg-x11-drv-openchrome
Test by typing startx
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