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Black Screen of Death

Muddy Brown
Registered User
Join date: 24 May 2006
Posts: 10
06-08-2006 20:53
Ever since the release of version 10 I've been unable to run the Linux client. SecondLife starts up but the screen is completely black. The only warnings I get on the logs are these...

From: someone

2006-06-09T03:42:38Z WARNING: Unable to open GPU table!
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2006-06-09T03:42:38Z WARNING: Mask attempting to reenabling disabled feature, ignoring RenderObjectBump
2006-06-09T03:42:38Z WARNING: Unknown feature mask NVIDIA
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2006-06-09T03:42:39Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z INFO: GL_VENDOR NVIDIA Corporation
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z GL_RENDERER GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z GL_VERSION 2.0.0 NVIDIA 76.76
2006-06-09T03:42:39Z

[Comence black screen of death]

The only way to exit is to 'killall secondlife-bin' as root.

Anyone know the solution?
Theora Aquitaine
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Join date: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 266
06-08-2006 23:33
Sounds really strange.

Have you tried deleting (backing up) the folder and installing from scratch?
Zi Ree
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Join date: 25 Feb 2006
Posts: 723
06-09-2006 00:27
Please post your system's specs (Graphics card model, CPU, RAM, distribution, driver version ect.) and double-check that you are using 3D enabled drivers.
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Muddy Brown
Registered User
Join date: 24 May 2006
Posts: 10
06-09-2006 22:04
From: Zi Ree
Please post your system's specs (Graphics card model, CPU, RAM, distribution, driver version ect.)

Graphics card: NVidia GeForce FX5200 128MB
CPU: AMD Atholn XP2800 (2100 MHz)
RAM: 512MB
Distro: Suse 10.0
NVidia Driver Version: 1.0-7676

From: Zi Ree
and double-check that you are using 3D enabled drivers.

How do I do that?
Artemis Keen
Linux Furry
Join date: 19 Apr 2006
Posts: 23
06-10-2006 02:09
From: Muddy Brown
Graphics card: NVidia GeForce FX5200 128MB
NVidia Driver Version: 1.0-7676


You might need a new NVdia driver, you got arather old one there, latest (well last time I checked) was 1.0-8762