UT 2003 problem

knightcon · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 13

Heres my problem. I install UT 2003 fine but then when i go to run the splash screen pops up sits there for about 2 seconds and disapears. any ideas? by the way im running gentoo 1.4_rc1 w/ KDE3.1 beta 2.
My first thought was that SDL or OpenGL were missing but i've installed both and the problem persits. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

bung-foo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 146

start it in a terminal and post the output of the terminal. That should give us a place to start.

Bung-Foo

knightcon · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 13

Okay i ran it in a terminal (dont know why i didn't think of that) and this was the output:

elboricua · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 9:58 pm Post subject:

Did you uncommnet

Load "glx"

In you /etc/X11/XF86Config?
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floam · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 11:16 pm Post subject:

emerge nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel, then uncomment the glx stuff in your x config, be sure to change vid driver from nv to nvidia

boyo · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 53 Location: MI

Also, I noticed that when using an XF86Config file genterated by XFree86 -configure there are color depths below 8 bpp specified. For some reason the nvidia drivers on my system refused to work until I commented those lines out; even with "Load glx" and the "nvidia" driver properly specified. That's something you may want to check if your XF86Config file was automatically generated using XFree86.

knightcon · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 13

Okay i got it to work but im not sure how
i emerge nvidia-kernel and GLX (v 1.0.3123) and that completly broke X!
then i switched back to my old tars i had used for redhat (v1.0.2960 the ones i had been using before the emerge) and that fixed that.
then i checked my XF86config file and yep Load "glx" was uncommented
so just to see if it would make a diffrence i commented it out rebooted and ran X. I got the same error but this time it mentioned somthing about Xlib not being able to find GLX (duh) before the "Couldn't set video mode" error . So i uncomented the Load "glx" line and restarted the Xserver (with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) tried UT and it works!??
i don't know how and im far too tired to question why. im just happy it works.

oh and Thanks to everyone who responded.

Stuartje · Apprentice Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 165

I have the same problem with an onboard SiS videocard...

boyo · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 53 Location: MI

The 1.0.4191 drivers are now availible. You may want to give those a try. I've had good results with them.

Also, the real problem I mentioned in my earlier post was from not having a default color depth specified rather than bogus color depths in XF86Config. The nvidia drivers don't seem to work properly without it a specific default.