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Miria Childs
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Join date: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 4
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06-23-2006 19:32
Okay, so with the video card on my Tiny God now thoroughly dead, I must attempt to run SL on my Linux box until such time as my replacement gets here. After various hair-tearing, I've managed to get SL to the point where it tries to run, at which point it dumps out, saying I need to have my desktop color depth at 32 bit, which it appears to be set at. I installed the new ATI linux drivers, and now I can't open either the ATI Control applet or my regular desktop properties.
I am a complete Linux newbie, and I fear I may have broken something.
Help! ^_^
(I'm running Fedora Core 4 on an Athlon 1800+ with 512 MB RAM and a Radeon 9700.)
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Maverynthia Dannunzio
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Join date: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 23
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06-24-2006 01:51
I had the SAME problem! I installed the ATI drivers and then SL would lock up or black screen me. I had to reinstall Ubuntu completely to get it to run right on the DEFAULT ati driver. Apperntly if I don't update the drivers or touch it it'll run, albeit laggy but it'll work. If I do update them, doom happens as above. I didn't get any help past that since some nVidia people hijacked my thread.  I wish I could get definitive help on this since I want the non-laggyness of a real SL experience without the crashing and blackscreening of a Windows experience.
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AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2Ghz | 512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 | AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
Ubuntu 7.04 | Win XP Pro Sp 2
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asib3edges Flaman
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Join date: 29 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
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06-29-2006 05:53
I am also having the same problem using Kubuntu Dapper, using generic nv driver.
My display runs at I think 1240 x 1024 or such like.
I don't really want to re-install Dapper as I have only just done this about a week ago after a whole load of problems.
Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks
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Theora Aquitaine
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Join date: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 266
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06-29-2006 06:49
It will not work with nv driver. You need the proprietary nvidia driver from nvidia.com.. but uh-oh "those nasty nvidia types" have hijacked the ATI thread again!
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Drake Winger
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Join date: 1 Feb 2006
Posts: 27
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06-29-2006 07:21
The basic gist is that you need full OpenGL support, which is only provided by the ATI and NVidia binary drivers at this time. There is work through the DRI project to integrate Mesa with 3D accelleration, but it's "before alpha" and well into development -- you have to recompile the entire X system and is best suited for distros that are source based (Gentoo makes it easy, though).
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asib3edges Flaman
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Join date: 29 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
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06-29-2006 23:42
Thanks for the reply, apologies for being an Nividia type, problem seemed generic. Anyhow thanks and have a great day.
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Tangletwigs Fairymeadow
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Join date: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 57
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06-30-2006 12:49
One gotcha i found was at least with the Nvidia (sorry sorry !) officlal drivers is they alter the default bits per pixel (bpp) too 16 in the x config file. You need too change that too 24 (or 32 if you card lets you) before SL will run at all - including loading the log in screen. So if you just get a totally black screen/window check that line in your config file  |