Linux problem : Black screen but sound
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:42 pm
Hello,
I've just received the 3 games christmas bundle limited edition. Very nice set of games and I very appreciated the Defcon's manual
Then I install Uplink and I notice a problem: I have a black screen but sound when I launch Uplink.
I am under Ubuntu 7.10, with a Thinkpad T22 (laptop) @900MHz and 256mb. My graphic card is an S3 Savage 8mb, it is rather poor but I can easily play SDL games such as Abuse without any glitches.
I tested my fresh install of Uplink from the CD with the latest 1.55 patch and my terminal show me an error about GCC 4.2.0.I read IV forums to know that I have just to delete libgcc_s.so.1 from my lib directory. Then my game don't launch at all and worst it shown me no error in my terminal!
I came to ~/.uplink/debug.log and I see this line
So I look at IV forums and I just see that my World.dat was missing. In fact it was not included in the linux version of my disk.
So i get it from my Win install and I start the game and now I am here, black screen but sound (i hear the music and the dial number).
I tried to launch Uplink from both the script and the binary, same result.
I tried to delete my ~/.uplink directory, no changes.
I tried to launch Uplink with options such as (+&-)graphics_fullscreen , +graphics_screendepth -1, and +graphics_screenrefresh -1, nothing new.
Here's my last entry of debug.log:
(you may notice the "Tried to set unrecognised option: 1", it's just the -1 value for graphics_screendepth, maybe the problem is here?)
and this is a result of glxinfo:
That's all that i can give you I think.
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my pretty bad english
I've just received the 3 games christmas bundle limited edition. Very nice set of games and I very appreciated the Defcon's manual
Then I install Uplink and I notice a problem: I have a black screen but sound when I launch Uplink.
I am under Ubuntu 7.10, with a Thinkpad T22 (laptop) @900MHz and 256mb. My graphic card is an S3 Savage 8mb, it is rather poor but I can easily play SDL games such as Abuse without any glitches.
I tested my fresh install of Uplink from the CD with the latest 1.55 patch and my terminal show me an error about GCC 4.2.0.I read IV forums to know that I have just to delete libgcc_s.so.1 from my lib directory. Then my game don't launch at all and worst it shown me no error in my terminal!
I came to ~/.uplink/debug.log and I see this line
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An error occured in Uplink
Files integrity is not verifiedSo I look at IV forums and I just see that my World.dat was missing. In fact it was not included in the linux version of my disk.
So i get it from my Win install and I start the game and now I am here, black screen but sound (i hear the music and the dial number).
I tried to launch Uplink from both the script and the binary, same result.
I tried to delete my ~/.uplink directory, no changes.
I tried to launch Uplink with options such as (+&-)graphics_fullscreen , +graphics_screendepth -1, and +graphics_screenrefresh -1, nothing new.
Here's my last entry of debug.log:
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===============================================
NEW GAME 0:11, 5/1/2008
===============================================
Version : 1.55
RELEASE
Linux Build
Version 1.55 (RELEASE)
Compiled on Mar 19 2007 at 13:34:53
(code-C)(code-M)(code-T)
Loading uplink options from /home/jonas/.uplink/options...success
Tried to set unrecognised option: 1
=====DEBUGGING INFORMATION ENABLED=====
Loading application data
Successfully loaded data archive data.dat
Successfully loaded data archive graphics.dat
Successfully loaded data archive loading.dat
Successfully loaded data archive sounds.dat
Successfully loaded data archive music.dat
Successfully loaded data archive fonts.dat
Successfully loaded data archive patch.dat
Successfully loaded data archive patch2.dat
Successfully loaded data archive patch3.dat
Finished loading application data
Init_Game called...creating game object
Finished with Init_Game
Saving uplink options to /home/jonas/.uplink/options...success
Initialising SDL...done
SDL is now opening a 1024x768 window in 16 depth ...done
SDL is now changing the window caption and diverse settings ...done
Initialising OpenGL...
Finished initialising OpenGL.
Now registering callback functions...done
Saving uplink options to /home/jonas/.uplink/options...success
Init_Fonts called...setting up system fonts
Registering fonts...done
Loading system fonts into memory...
done
Unregistering fonts...done
Finished with Init_Fonts
Init_Sound called...setting up sound system
Compiled with SDL_mixer version: 1.2.7
Running with SDL_mixer version: 1.2.7
Finished with Init_Sound
Init_Music called...loading modules
Finished with Init_Music
Creating main menu.
====== END OF DEBUGGING INFORMATION ====
Loading LAN from data/lans/sample.txt...done
Saving uplink options to /home/jonas/.uplink/options...success(you may notice the "Tried to set unrecognised option: 1", it's just the -1 value for graphics_screendepth, maybe the problem is here?)
and this is a result of glxinfo:
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jonas@jonas-laptop:~$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"
direct rendering: YesThat's all that i can give you I think.
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my pretty bad english
