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5arge

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Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 13

[Solved] (Partial) Loss of vid acceleration with xorg 1.7 & nvidia 190

I've noticed people having a lot of problems with the new xorg server crashing, but my problem appears to be different:  Xorg is stable, hasn't crashed yet: but games (and steam) fail to load.  However, video acceleration works just fine for compiz and glxgears. 

The games are run in a 32 bit chroot, which is completely up-to-date. I haven't seen anyone else with this problem, so I'm creating a new post (whith a topic title that may be way off :).

Here are the error messages displayed when I try to load the games:

Quake4:

--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------
Initializing SDL subsystem
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Initializing SDL subsystem
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Fatal Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL
--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------
---------------------------------------------
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL

ET:Quake Wars:

Initializing SDL subsystem
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
WARNING: SDL_Init failed: No available video device

------- Initializing renderSystem --------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
signal caught: 'Segmentation fault', si_code 1
callstack:
0x0
[0x082e6001]
[0x082e340d]
[0xf77cb410]
Trying to exit gracefully..
--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------
---------------------------------------------
Shutting down SDL subsystem
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

Steam:

No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:systray:initialize_systray Could not create tray window
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

I've posted on the tail end of the output for Quake4 and ET:Quake Wars for brevity, but included it all for Steam.  I've lost the old xorg and nvidia packages, so I'm unable to downgrade.  Also, "echo $DISPLAY" in both native and 32bit chroot terminal's output :0.0.

Am I missing something obvious here?  Anyone else experiencing something similar?

Last edited by 5arge (2009-11-15 18:01:17)

5arge

Member

Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] (Partial) Loss of vid acceleration with xorg 1.7 & nvidia 190

The problem was because of the 32 bit chroot: X server wasn't allowing access.

"xhost +local:" run from the terminal before trying the games fixes it (but needs to be done with every reboot).

Now, I just need to figure out what's changed seeing as I never had to do this before... (schroot?, Xorg?, ??)