Life Through a Peephole

Hi,

I installed 1.20.2.85278 today and find that I cannot get it to use my whole monitor at full resolution. This has never been the case before.

I absolutely detest being limited to a fraction of my monitor. Why is this happening? How can I regain the ability to run at full resolution (1600x1200) with SL using the entire monitor?

Thanks.

Rudy

Nobody else has encountered this problem??

Are you trying to Maximaise or trying to go Fullscreen?

Maximize.

Fullscreen switches the monitor resolution. I want to keep it at 1600x1200 and have the SL viewer use all of those pixels.

RS

In fact, going full-screen makes the application hang. The resolution is switched, the screen goes blank and nothing replaces it. CTRL-Q followed by a blind <ENTER> to confirm the quit dialog you cannot see gets you out, and the monitor resolution is switched back to what it was before (1600x1200).

Audio appears not to work properly, either. UI sounds work, but nothing else.

This is clearly a bug (or two or more). No one else has this problem?

Rudy

Hi,

I installed the new viewer, 1.20.4.85828, and still I cannot get a full-screen window.

What gives with this?

Does anybody get full-screen at full resolution on a 1600x1200 monitor with the 1.20.y.z series viewers?


Rudy

Just a question, don't know if I'm missing something, but...isn't the 1.20 series supposed to be release candidates and not the "stable" release? Just asking.

All the older versions demand that you upgrade before you can log in.

I just got another clue.

My older versions are starting up in a small window, too. These are the ones that used to give me full-screen at full resolution.

So I guess something somewhere in my ~/.secondlife directory is SNAFU.

How much of what's stored there can be safely deleted?

Rudy

Even more information:

Wiping out my entire ~/.secondlife directory does not change the small-window problem and it occurs even in the older versions of thew viewer.

I also noticed that when I go into the preferences and view the video hardware preferences, it thinks I have 512 MB of video card RAM, but I know there's only 256 MB there.

Perhaps something has happened to my system that's keeping the SL viewer from getting accurate video or display hardware information?

I'm running on openSUSE 10.3, which I keep up-to-date with Novell- / SuSE-supplied patches.


Rudy

Wow, really? Ahh, you mean all the old First Look versions, and all the old RC versions...because I am running the "stable" 1.19.1.4 viewer and I don't get any message asking for this upgrade. As I said, you are using a Release Candidate (elegant name for "unfinished" version, so of course you will find a plethora of bugs in it, that is what RCs are for finding and reporting bugs.

Nope. When I run 1.19.1 (4) I get a banner outlined in red that says the viewer is out-of-date and that "In order to connect, you'll need to download this required update ..." and the version it demands is 1.20.4.85828.

And, as I noted, the old versions are showing the same symptom, so I'm beginning to think it's not SL but rather something about my system.


Rudy

Well there's 2 different 1.19.4s, an RC and a Stable. You have the RC version of it apparently. Go redownload it and see if it still prompts you to upgrade.

OK, I didn't realize that, but the problem remains with the stable 1.19.4 and it clearly isn't about the SL software (or version thereof). At least not entirely. Every SL viewer I now have installed (six of them) exhibits this symptom. And I've completely removed my ~/.secondlife directory, so it's not some stale data in there. Lastly, all the SL viewers mis-report the amount of video RAM on the board, so I think it's some problem that has cropped up on my system in the last few weeks and it's tripping up SL in this way.


Rudy

Well, it appears the whole thing was (mostly) cockpit error / PEBKAC.

Somewhere along the line, it occurred to me to use KDE's maximize command on the SL application tab in the taskbar. That was all it took.

Why SL reverted to a small window in the first place I don't know.

All the other problems were red herrings, too. Either a matter of settings I had wrong (after clearing the ~/.secondlife directory) or the fact that there was no audio on a particular plot of land.

Rudy's happy, now! (See also the thread about my brand new video card).


Rudy