quake3 just gives blank screen

xbradx · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 24 Location: charlotte, nc

i installed the point release for quake 3, made a symlink to my pak0.pk3 on my windows partition, and tried to start it up. all i get is a black screen, which has a frozen cursor on it. i can't cntrl+alt+bs out of X or switch to a console, i have to manually restart my computer.

here's some info on my comp:
geforce 2 32MB
athlon 1.3ghz
256mb ram

i can run glxgears fine, so it's not a problem with GL (i think). i tried running "quake 3&>quake.log" but after it crashes and i reboot there is no quake.log. anyone know what's up?

Hypnos · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject:

Two ideas:

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xbradx · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 24 Location: charlotte, nc

i used that command and quickly switched to a console just in time to see my kernel dump garbage on the screen and crash

. when i rebooted there was still no log file for quake. has anyone else had this problem? i would have thought with something common like a geforce 2 this would be easy to set up.

Hypnos · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:13 pm Post subject:

If you're kernel is crashing you have other issues. One might be the NVIDIA kernel mods, the other might be the fancy patches in the Gentoo stock kernel. You might want to switch over to vanilla sources.

I'm using the point release with no problems on my ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile.

Hypnos · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject:

Oh, another idea is that sound init may not be working. Try launching quake3 this way:

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

my system:
asus a7v333/amdXP2000+
geforce2 ti / linuxq3apoint-1.31.x86
gentoo 1.3 / linux 2.4.19 vanilla
I had absolutely no problems installing quake3 here, May I suggest running this command:

w00t · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago, IL

Make sure you have current video and sound drivers, and try copying over the file completely, not just a sim link. Maybe it will make a difference.
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seang · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 3:54 pm Post subject:

If you're running KDE and have artsd active, then that's you problem... Kill artsd (or disable it from the control panel) and get fragging...

kemical · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 10:08 am Post subject:

i run kde 3.1, with nvidia drivers and all that.

no problem here

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