Games wont bloody work! Any help?

[greatunclebulgaria]

I installed a bunch of games from the mandrake 8 cds, when i run most of them (the more advanced ones, perhaps the 3d accelerated ones?, such as Tuxracer, Pingus, and the Clanbomber games,The little games like Tetris all work fine) the screen appears to flicker (as if preparing the graphics and everything), and then exits to the login screen! I have a voodoo bansee card and its listed in linux as generic 3dfx voodoo banshee. They used to work when i first installed linux, then they stopped, I know once I disabled 3d acceleration from mandrake control in the display setup and reinstalled them and they worked, but only some of them, Tuxracer (which i like lol) said at the console that it couldnt init the opengl. So i reinstalled linux from scratch (formatted the partition) and they still dont work. Now i cant even get the non open gl ones like pingus to work =[. Anyone have any ideas? Ill have to kill myself if I cant play tuxracer. Ive tried running running it in both KDE and Gnome, but theres no difference whatsoever (not that I thought there would be).

Thanks

- Jason

[Malakin]

You problems are all with opengl and your banshee. I see a lot of people with problems like these, my suggestion is go out and buy a geforce mx since they can be had for $50 these days and not only will you get much better performance but you won't have any driver problems.

[SCuSI]

You will have to boot to a commandline not the KDE graphical login (KDM). Somewhere in the Mandrake Control Center is the ability to choose between GUI and non-GUI login. you could also edit /etc/inittab changing:

# default runlevel
id:5:initdefault:

to:

# default runlevel
id:3:initdefault:

(I think!)

Somewhere on a mandrake website is their recommended fix which involves deleting a file pertaining to kdm, although I think that renameing the file sounds a little safer.

[SCuSI]

You will have to boot to a commandline not the KDE graphical login (KDM). Somewhere in the Mandrake Control Center is the ability to choose between GUI and non-GUI login. you could also edit /etc/inittab changing:

# default runlevel
id:5:initdefault:

to:

# default runlevel
id:3:initdefault:

(I think!)

Somewhere on a mandrake website is their recommended fix which involves deleting a file pertaining to kdm, although I think that renameing the file sounds a little safer.

http://www.linux-mandrake.org/en/80last.php3

[ 08 July 2001: Message edited by: SCuSI ]

[Fondor]

Im guessing that if you are getting the problems in both kde and gnome that its a problem with X windsws. You may want to check out the XF86Config file and see if there is a 'load "glx"' line is present under the modules section. I think this enable openGL. Some distrubitons like SuSE disable openGL by default at installaton.

[greatunclebulgaria]

thanks everyone, all your suggestions worked (apart from the the bit about getting a geforce, Im too broke to spend even $50 =[)

also i changed the tuxracer config to work at 1024x768 (my resolution) in 16bb color which worked too. =]

[kuit]

Linux is pretty sweet. Heh?

I wish there was some more "serious" games for linux that had good gfx like tuxracer does. But tuxracer is cool enough.

Kuit

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

bleh, all the 3d games make my monitor go screwy.

screen res: 640x480
desktop res: 1024x768

I have to use the mouse to scroll the screen around to see stuff. I have to reboot to fix it. very annoyying.