linux games (with nvidia) don't work anymore?

Karel J. Bosschaart karelj at kayjay.xs4all.nl
Sat May 22 11:09:46 PDT 2004


On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:30:44PM +0200, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004 14:10:52 +0200
> "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj at kayjay.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Recently I upgraded my -current from before the threads switch. I had
> > some fun with libmap.conf and now things are working again, including
> > the nvidia driver: glxgears and the OpenGL screensavers that come with
> > KDE are working fine.
> > 
> > However, my linux games such as Quake3 and UT2004 are failing
> > consistently. They worked before, but now they all end up in a black
> > screen with the machine dead: no ping, no ssh into it.
> > 
> > I reinstalled linux_base (and after that nvidia-driver), but that
> > didn't help.
> > 
> > Any hints appreciated,
> > Karel.
> 
> Have you tried this?
> 
> setenv GL_SINGLE_THREADED 1

I have always __GL_SINGLE_THREADED=1 in my environment when playing
linux games (with 2 underscores at the start), I guess that's the
same?

Karel.


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