Stupid too-white screen in Tuxracer

[bobarian]

I've gotten Mandrake-7.2 to finally work the way I want it too. It came with Tuxracer, but when I run it (not the opening screens, just when I race)I get a screen that is so white that I can't see what I'm doing. I think I have Mesa-3.3 on the system.

[Paul Weaver]

White as in bright or white as in white?

I know my copy ups the brightness slightly when I load it, and the display changed to openGL, although thats in XFree 4.01.

What happens if you turn the brightness and contrast of your screen waaay down?

[Shad]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem. I have posted before but noone ever answered. By any chance do you have a Rage128 chip video card?

I have a Rage Fury and it does the same thing. BTW it is white as in white. It kinda looks like intense fog. The reason I bring up fog as when you get real close to say a tree, you can make it out.

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[bobarian]

Originally posted by Shad:
Glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem. I have posted before but noone ever answered. By any chance do you have a Rage128 chip video card?

I have a Rage Fury and it does the same thing. BTW it is white as in white. It kinda looks like intense fog. The reason I bring up fog as when you get real close to say a tree, you can make it out.



Yes I do have a Rage 128, in fact.

[bobarian]

Originally posted by Paul Weaver:
White as in bright or white as in white?

I know my copy ups the brightness slightly when I load it, and the display changed to openGL, although thats in XFree 4.01.

What happens if you turn the brightness and contrast of your screen waaay down?

Yeah, tried all that even to an extreme degree. What confuses me is that I have an ATI rage 128, which is supposed to be the one of the few cards that are accelerated under XFree86 4.0.1. I didn't expect to have any problems, and certainly not one this strange. Are there any kind of config files for tuxracer I can mess around with?

[White Shadow]

I think it something weird going on with Rage 128 cards. I have a Rage 128 and get the same thing white (looks like intense fog).

WS

[bobarian]

Originally posted by White Shadow:
I think it something weird going on with Rage 128 cards. I have a Rage 128 and get the same thing white (looks like intense fog).

WS
This seems to be a fairly constant problem. Perhaps I should email someone that works on tuxracer about this bug. Does anyone know what to do about this?

[White Shadow]

This seems to be a fairly constant problem. Perhaps I should email someone that works on tuxracer about this bug. Does anyone know what to do about this?[/B]

Good idea. Maybe they will have an awnser to why this is. Maybe the way it renders doesn't like gri or something. All I know is it sucks..

WS

[bobarian]

Originally posted by White Shadow:
Good idea. Maybe they will have an awnser to why this is. Maybe the way it renders doesn't like gri or something. All I know is it sucks..

WS


I was browsing the tux mailing list archives, and I found this:
I have exactly the same problem on my RedHat 7 system, also with an ATI
Rage 128. However, a quick workaround is to put

glDisable( GL_FOG );

at the end of set_gl_options in gl_util.c. I`ve tried twiddling with the
fog_settings in fog.c but I haven`t successfully been able to alter its
behaviour (even with the density set to 0.0!)

It seems that the fog is broken on the r128 driver. I haven't tried it yet, most certainly will.

Also, the tuxracer developers have been notified of this problem.