Blank window when starting REminiscence

pootzko · 2011-07-16 09:56:55

when I start reminiscence (an old dos/amiga) game, all I get is a blank (black) window...

reminisicence aur packet should download and extract all the necessary dos files (and it does) - but the game won't start. dos files are located in /usr/share/reminiscence, I even tried replacing them with another set of dos flashback files but I still get the same result...

i tried starting the game as root and as a regular user through konsole, and using alt+f2... even tried playing with permissions and ownership, but nothing helped..

hints?
maybe if someone would be kind enough to try this packet out and see what kind of a result he gets? or if someone already tried it, and could share his experience?

thank you

karol · 2011-07-16 10:42:39

If you start it from the terminal, do you get any errors?

pootzko · 2011-07-16 10:53:44

no I don't. this is what I get:

$ reminiscence
Detected PC version

that's all.. it just starts a window, no errors in output

Last edited by pootzko (2011-07-16 10:54:30)

karol · 2011-07-16 11:15:45

It just works here.
I'm using nouveau drivers for my nvidia fx 5500.

pootzko · 2011-07-16 11:22:51

mmm, ok.
thank you very much. this was very helpful info.
now I know that it must be something about my laptop configuration and I will start there.

just in case someone else has the same problem and in case that the gpu is causing the problem - my laptop has ATI x1150 and I use xf86-video-ati open-source driver

Last edited by pootzko (2011-07-16 11:35:12)

Durden · 2011-07-16 15:00:03

If you're doing this through Konsole then I assume you're using KDE? Can you turn desktop effects off and try it?

pootzko · 2011-07-16 15:30:15

yes, I use KDE. tried it out without effects.. still everything is the same.

one more thing - while the reminiscence blank window is opened - one core of my cpu goes to 100%, so it's doing something..

as I read more on the internet, I suspect it might have something to do with reminiscence dependency - SDL which is: "Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games"

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karol · 2011-07-16 15:34:22

Have you tried other drivers - vesa even?

pootzko · 2011-07-18 20:28:15

nope.. didn't try that. I don't want the game so bad hehe
btw, also in case someone stumbles upon this - neither the amiga emulator works.. might be connected to each other..

oh well, nevermind. thanks for the effort

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Blank window when starting REminiscence

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