Blender and crashing when going to 3d views
 

I can load it up fine, and draw but when i go to do a 3d view(in the same window, just look around the object, by pressing "d") the comp freezes, when i reboot i checked the logs and this is the problem.
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.

Anyone know how to fix this? I really wanna do the rendering in linux rather than booting into windows for it. Thanks

PC Info
Using ati x800 pci-express se, xfree, and ati drivers-on gentoo.
Daum

You mean "Blender" right...???
Pressing D brings up the draw mode. Crashing at this point could indicate that your OpenGL drivers are screwed. (but in that case blender should'nt have started at all) Ah.. anyway.. try running glxgears.. if that runs then GL is fine.. there might be some other issue.

doh yeha ment blender=)

glx gears=23873 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4774.600 FPS

Works fine.

What i find weird is that i can hit d sometimes..but just not when i do this tutorial...
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/ray_tracing/blender/
On the step where you hit d. If i hit d right when it opens its fine.

Daum

Hmm.. I cant see why the tutorial should cause anything.. where exactly in the tutorial are you when you crash.
Which version of Blender are you using?

updated to 2.35 last night. Now it works much better but sometimes if i do an action too quick(undo a bunch of times) or when i first boot up, the program decides if its gonna crash and stall the system. If after one minute i can use it, it is good until i do something like hit undo or subdivide a ton of times. then it gives the same error in the var log messsages.
Daum

May be I am wrong.. but I think you need more RAM..

1 gig isn't enough? at 533mhz ddr2....p4 w/ht 800fsb at 3gig hrtz.
Daum

Are you using xorg 6.8 or 6.7?

As the ATI drivers have serious problems with doing 3d under 6.8.

EDIT: Never mind, just read the other replies, seems that isn't the problem.

using XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1.
When i installed gentoo, xorg wasn't support ati pci express cards....and xfree's general driver worked..then ati-drivers started to work for pci express.
Do i need to set the amount of memory blender has to use maybe?
I would think it'd just keep taking as much as it'd like.
Daum