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bladdo

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From: Blacksburg, VA

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 111

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UT2004 Problem :X

I installed UT2004 with the installer, when I try it, it gives me a black screen, I can hear the sound coming from it, but I just get a black screen. My videocard is the Nvidia Geforce4 MX and I have the proper nvidia drivers installed I believe. Anyone else have this problem?

edit: Forgot to mention, I do see the splash screen initially(then it goes black) oh and for reference here is my xorg.conf.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ##Fonts and such
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/user"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "record"
#   Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    ##If mouse fsck, still boot
    Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    ##Generic 105 key pc keyboard
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
    ##PS2 HP Generic 3 button mouse(scroll)
    Identifier     "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option         "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    ##Generic USB Mouse autodetect
    Identifier     "USB Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option         "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    ##Sony SDM-X52
    Identifier     "Monitor0"

    #HorizSync       28.0 - 96.0  ## Fail Safe Horizontal Sync Rate
    #VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0  ## Fail Safe Vertical Sync Rate
    HorizSync       55.0 - 61.0 ## Fine Tuned
    VertRefresh     70.0 - 75.0 ## Fine Tuned

    ModeLine       "1024x768" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync #1024x768 reso
    ModeLine       "800x600" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 
-hsync -vsync #1024x768 reso

    Option         "DPMS" "true"
#    HorizSync    28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors
EndSection

Section "Device"
    ##Nvidia Geforce4 MX
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "All"
    BoardName      "All"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    ##Screen settings, Screen0, Card0, Monitor0 used
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24

    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection

EndSection

and my lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  253764  8
parport_pc             35300  1
ppdev                   7556  0
ppp_generic            24596  0
lp                      9220  0
parport                31560  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
nvidia               4710864  22
pcspkr                  2944  0
shpchp                 29716  0
pci_hotplug            26272  1 shpchp
usbhid                 42560  0
i2c_nforce2             6016  0
hid                    38272  1 usbhid
ff_memless              5128  1 usbhid
i2c_core               19584  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
nvidia_agp              6812  1
agpgart                28120  2 nvidia,nvidia_agp
sg                     26896  0
thermal                12956  0
processor              29144  1 thermal
evdev                   9344  3
fan                     3844  0
button                  6544  0
battery                10756  0
ac                      4612  0
snd_intel8x0           29084  0
snd_seq_oss            30336  0
snd_ac97_codec         97828  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_midi_event      6656  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48464  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            38432  0
snd_pcm                70404  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19588  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8072  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          14848  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46436  9 snd_intel8x0,snd_seq_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,sn$
soundcore               6496  1 snd
ac97_bus                2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
slhc                    6016  1 ppp_generic
forcedeth              45324  0
rtc_cmos                7712  0
rtc_core               15752  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 3072  1 rtc_core
usb_storage            83648  0
ext2                   64008  3
mbcache                 7168  1 ext2
ohci1394               28976  0
sr_mod                 15268  0
cdrom                  34080  1 sr_mod
sd_mod                 23168  5
ehci_hcd               33804  0
ohci_hcd               22020  0
ieee1394               81464  1 ohci1394
usbcore               128620  5 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ata_generic             5380  0
pata_amd               10372  4
pata_acpi               5248  0
libata                141424  3 ata_generic,pata_amd,pata_acpi

Last edited by bladdo (2008-05-29 04:35:36)

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FrozenFox

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From: College Station, TX

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 422

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Re: UT2004 Problem :X

Have you tried switching to another tty then back? I get a similar annoyance on some programs, though mostly in wine. Ctrl+alt+f8 then back to f7 usually makes it visible.

Also, what driver version?

Last edited by FrozenFox (2008-05-29 19:07:03)

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: UT2004 Problem :X

I had the same video card as you do, and 3D only ever worked with the 877x series of drivers. Last I knew, that series would only build against modern kernels with a patch, but I imagine that patch is out of date by now. The best thing for you to do is to buy a cheap new video card. You can get an upgrade to your current card for around $30 from Newegg, and it would work with the modern drivers.

Edit: Here's the thread I started about this issue on NVIDIA's support forum. As you can see, there was no resolution.

Last edited by skymt (2008-05-29 19:37:44)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: UT2004 Problem :X

Skip the ut2004 intro - see bottom of thread.