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blueicefield

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 4

Black screen when I run some games

HI,

I have an up to date release of Archlinux :

$ uname -a
Linux XXXXXX 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 21:55:57 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


$ pacman -Qs nvidia
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 280.13-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries. (32-bit)
local/libcl 1.0-1
    OpenCL library and ICD loader from NVIDIA
local/libvdpau 0.4.1-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 280.13-1
    NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/nvidia-utils 280.13-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.
local/opencl-nvidia 280.13-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA

When I run some games like armagetronad (from community repo) or redeclipse (from AUR), I find myself after a few seconds (time variable) with a black screen and the system stopped responding, that's like it was a standby mode, impossible to return to the desktop or even to switch consoles.

I do not encounter this problem with other games like OpenArena or wormux.

Note that I have two monitors with the same resolution installed on my machine.

Thanks !

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Black screen when I run some games

It may be a problem with the refresh rate - nvidia for some reason offers really poor refresh.

Can you post the output of 'xrandr'?

blueicefield

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 4

Re: Black screen when I run some games

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 2560 x 1024, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024
default connected 2560x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   2560x1024      50.0*

Last edited by blueicefield (2011-08-23 12:46:21)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Black screen when I run some games

Uhm, this might be the case. I'm not much of a gamer, so I don't know how to coax nvidia into letting you set e.g. 60 Hz and nouveau doesn't work well in games (apart from Starcraft ;P).