https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463471 Summary: Starting fullscreen games results in a black screen Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: richard.bos@xs4all.nl QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Community User When starting games like xmoto, pingus or etracer I get a black screen that states that this resolution is not supported or available. The last message is actually generated by the monitor (philips ws220). The monitored is configured with a resolution of 1600x1050. After some investigation it seems possible to start the before mentioned games with a 1600x1050 resolution. This is either via cli arguments or configuration files. The xorg.conf files has only 1 modeline: Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1680x1050" 146.00 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 EndSection That's it. I configured the video card using sax2. The card was recognized correctly and no problems have been reported (nvidia 7600GT agp card). The result of this behaviour is very bad, a black screen and no out, of one does not <ctr><alt>F1 and some command line tricks. That's why I marked the bug as major. I believe that there are 2 solutions (at least) to solve this problem. 1) Add more modelines to the xorg.conf file 2) Start the games, and use xdpyinfo to determine the screen dimensions and use those values in the line that executes the games (xmoto.desktop, pingus.desktop) in this case an additional script need to be used to determine the screen dimentions and to start the games. Item 2 won't work for etracer as the options for this game needs to be altered in the file .etracer/options. BTW. the latter (etracer) has an incorrect link: med111:/usr/bin # ls -l etracer -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 655960 Dec 3 11:33 etracer med111:/usr/bin # ls -l extreme-tuxracer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 31 11:28 extreme-tuxracer -> etrace (wrong) med111:/usr/bin # ls -l extreme-tuxracer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 4 12:14 extreme-tuxracer -> etracer (correct) etracer misses an .desktop file as well. BTW2: pingus can be started with a language option, is it possible to make language dependend Exec entries in the pingus.desktop file, like: Exec[nl]=pingus --language nl Exec[de]=pingus --language de etc. Please, let me know if additional bug reports need to be opened for the BTW's mentioned above. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.