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Frabato

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 267

[SOLVED] extremetux racer out of scan range

Hi All,

This has happened with other games as well and on other distros, but I've never been able to cure it. I have a GeForce 6200 with an 22" NEC monitor running @ 1680x1050 nvidia driver 295.20. Start extremetuxracer="out of scan range", I assume that it doesn't like the resolution but I can't find a config file to tweak. This also happens on some other games. My 6 year old boy REALLY wants to play extremetuxracer so if anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Last edited by Frabato (2012-03-07 21:51:40)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: [SOLVED] extremetux racer out of scan range

Easy.

First let's find out how to start it by listing the installed files for the "extremetuxracer" package.

# pacman -Ql extremetuxracer

Actually... let's filter it by anything "bin" so that we don't have to scroll up like a mad hyena:

# pacman -Ql extremetuxracer | grep bin

extremetuxracer /usr/bin/
extremetuxracer /usr/bin/etracer

Good. Now let's have a look in our user dir. Oh, whaddya know, there's an ".etracer" folder in there. With an "options" file inside... Now isn't that convenient? You can either delete this file and it will revert to the 800x600 default, or you can edit it. Your choice.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] extremetux racer out of scan range

I've had similar issues with many games with my nvidia too.
Lowering the resolution or toggling the fullscreen switch helped.

Frabato

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 267

Re: [SOLVED] extremetux racer out of scan range

Thanks for the replies.

Well that WAS embarrassingly simple.

pacman -Ql extremetuxracer | grep bin

Nifty!

Thanks and my son thanks you too!