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#1 User is offline   fateswarm (old) Icon

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Posted 03 December 2004 - 02:30 AM

If by any chance you use debian unstable or perhaps any debian distribution and the dri-trunk packages, keep in mind that I had this problem: Quake3 had no problems at all, not even in multiplayer but maybe I didn't check a lot.

However, UT loaded most of the times but in multiplayer in 1 out of 2 cases where the level changed there was a crash both on UT/Q3 and the Xserver.

If by any chance you have similar problems consider that by using the unstable's xserver and the unstable's 2.6.9's radeon module, these problems have been very limited if not dissappeared.

This message does not really apply to other linux users.

Thanks.

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Posted 03 December 2004 - 04:30 AM

Have you any logs to share?

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Posted 03 December 2004 - 08:49 PM

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Have you any logs to share?


No, I wouldn't know what to look at. And it's two days before now that this happened and I wouldn't know the exact time. But I wouldn't know what to look at since the xserver seemed to work correctly and some games did.

If there's a log in .q3ut3 I've deleted them today :/

If it helps, Enemy Territory had also crashes (without any Urban Terror in it if there is a test version for it). In fact Enemy Territory wouldn't start any level I tried.

However, now both work perfectly.

It's I assume that the dri-trunk packages for debian unstable were made on may 2004, and the xserver of unstable has been improved or changed.

So, I'm perfectly fine now with the distribution's server.

#4 Guest_Just_a_guy

Posted 05 December 2004 - 04:08 AM

I've had some of the same problems with games crashing, refusing to load, freezing the x-server, crashing to the desktop, etc. Whether in UT2004, Doom 3, or Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I've also had some of the same problems in Windows, though not nearly as pronounced.

The problem lies in ATI's drivers, I had a Radeon 9800 pro w/128 megs of vram so its not like the card CAN'T run the game.

Three possible solutions, wait for ATI to listen to this petition and to write a decent Linux driver, wait for a third party driver to be written for your particular chipset (I believe there is one posted on Sourceforge), or buy an nVidia card which has awesome linux support either using the nVidia installer or the Debian way by adding the following lines to your apt sources.list

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deb http://people.debian...~rdonald/nvidia unstable/i386/
deb http://people.debian...~rdonald/nvidia unstable/all/
deb http://people.debian...~rdonald/nvidia modules-unstable/i386/
deb http://people.debian...~rdonald/nvidia pre/i386/

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(Only works with stock kernels, use the nVidia installer if you use a custom kernel)

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