Cant play linux games

viper3k · 2010-05-03 17:25:56

Hello everyone .
I have a problem :
After installing arch and doing everything now my computer works great
but i have an issue, i have installed with "yaourt" 2 games [Assaultcube , Wolfenstein ET ]
but when i try to play them my monitor went black , in fact i think its like it shut down and the only thing i can do is
CTR+ALT+f1 to log as root to reboot , i cant even see whats the problem

BTW ive x86 intel drivers , 512 ram not much but enought

what should i do?

THX FOR THE TIME ,
I HOPE TO NOT CAUSE MUCH TROUBLE

Last edited by .:B:. (2010-05-08 08:09:40)

Daenyth · 2010-05-03 17:33:47

Try enabling sysrq and see if that allows you to kill them when it goes bad. Is there anything in your logs?

viper3k · 2010-05-03 17:51:07

Daenyth wrote:

Try enabling sysrq and see if that allows you to kill them when it goes bad. Is there anything in your logs?

WOW fast reply

unfortunatelly im noobish in the linux stuff

what is sysrq? and how can i see the logs :S ?

thx again

Gen2ly · 2010-05-04 00:02:57

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lis … uts#Kernel

n0dix · 2010-05-04 01:20:42

viper3k wrote:

and how can i see the logs :S ?

Probably, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and others (see into /var/log/)

Edit: Use pastebin to post the logs or 'code' tags

Last edited by n0dix (2010-05-07 03:17:52)

viper3k · 2010-05-04 02:24:54

n0dix wrote:

viper3k wrote:
and how can i see the logs :S ?
Probably, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and others (see the into /var/log/)
Edit: Use pastebin to post the logs or 'code' tags

thnx for the info:D

alez · 2010-05-06 20:50:36

It goes black and doesn't respond? Did you edit the app's conf file to adjust it to your resolution?

viper3k · 2010-05-07 01:41:24

alez wrote:

It goes black and doesn't respond? Did you edit the app's conf file to adjust it to your resolution?

i will try thx

viper3k · 2010-05-07 21:27:26

viper3k wrote:

alez wrote:
It goes black and doesn't respond? Did you edit the app's conf file to adjust it to your resolution?
i will try thx

ive looking and i cant find the conf of assaultcube and wolfestein

maybe you know where are them?

THX

alez · 2010-05-08 06:20:12

I tried wolfestein (BTW, awesome!) and the configs are into ~/.etwolf/etmain. I guess for assaultcube it is pretty much the same.

viper3k · 2010-05-08 12:42:33

alez wrote:

I tried wolfestein (BTW, awesome!) and the configs are into ~/.etwolf/etmain. I guess for assaultcube it is pretty much the same.

OH thx!! i will try that !

Gen2ly · 2010-05-08 17:10:37

For Urban Terror (uses same engine as wolfenstein), I found my solution here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ost5384132

Try the rmode because UT/Wolfenstein default to a resolution/refresh your screen isn't capable of displaying.

P.S. You dont' need to reboot, you can kill the process by:

ps -aux | grep -i wolf
pkill wolfenstein #this is a guess since I dont' have it installed

# If desperate you can just kill the X server by:

pkill X

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viper3k · 2010-05-08 18:13:11

Gen2ly wrote:

For Urban Terror (uses same engine as wolfenstein), I found my solution here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ost5384132
Try the rmode because UT/Wolfenstein default to a resolution/refresh your screen isn't capable of displaying.
P.S. You dont' need to reboot, you can kill the process by:
ps -aux | grep -i wolf
pkill wolfenstein #this is a guess since I dont' have it installed

# If desperate you can just kill the X server by:

pkill X

thx for the info
but i tried

seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_customwidth "1280"
seta r_customheight "1024"

this and still the monitors go off ,

now if its not the cfg i dont really know what could it be , the other thing is
in Monitor prefrences it detects that i have a " Goldstar Company ltd 16" " while i have an LG 17"
dont know if that maybe is the problem but i dont think it is

Thx for reading

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BTW : when im in the game Full screen and my monitor go off i press

ALT + ENTER

and the game goes to window mode and i can see it
so basically the problem is in full screen

Last edited by viper3k (2010-05-08 18:22:51)

Darksoul71 · 2010-05-08 18:58:23

viper3k: Unfortunately you still didn't give much informations about your system.

Example:
- Graphic adapter
- Graphic driver used
etc.

The behaviour you described reminds me strongly of the problem I had with my GeForce 7900GS with closed source driver under Ubuntu. I already described it over at the Aquaria forum where one guy had the same issue:
http://www.bit-blot.com/forum/index.php … 4#msg25534

You can pretty easy find out the refreshrates your graphic adapter used to access your monitor by using xrandr.

You should normally get an output like this:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2304 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
   1280x1024      60.0*+   75.0  
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 connected 1024x768+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
   1024x768       75.0*+   75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1

In my case both attached monitors are TFT ones. So any refreshrate betwee 60 Hz and 75 Hz is fine.

Lets have a look what your xrandr output shows. I would bet that you see refreshrates below 60 Hz (e.g. 50 Hz)

viper3k · 2010-05-08 19:39:01

thx for the info Darksoul71

this is my xrandr

[viper@machine ~]$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 310mm x 230mm
   1024x768       85.0 +   85.0     75.1     70.1     60.0  
   1280x1024      60.0* 
   1152x864       75.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        87.8     70.1

my card is

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

and the drivers are xf86-video-intel

Darksoul71 · 2010-05-08 19:41:47

Hm, is your monitor a TFT or CRT monitor ?
For TFT 85 Hz wouldn't be good :-|

viper3k · 2010-05-09 19:59:49

Darksoul71 wrote:

Hm, is your monitor a TFT or CRT monitor ?
For TFT 85 Hz wouldn't be good :-|

its crt

Darksoul71 · 2010-05-09 20:05:19

Hm, sorry mate...then I have no further clue :-(

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viper3k · 2010-05-11 15:17:39

Darksoul71 wrote:

Hm, sorry mate...then I have no further clue :-(

no problem

lotuskip · 2010-05-11 15:46:28

Umm, I remember trying to get Wolf-ET to work a year ago or so (this was in Fedora), and after reading tons of bug reports etc., concluded that it's just simply too old a game. There were some obscure compatability issues with the latest video drivers, the developers of the drivers basically did not want to worry about such "old software problems", and I would have had to downgrade to an older version of the video driver.

So, I wonder, has someone actually managed to run Enemy Territory with the most recent Intel video drivers? (That'd be great, I love the game!)

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Cant play linux games

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