Blackouts

**afroguy013** · 12-02-2005

Ok, so I like playing my games, and I usually have a lot of fun playing them. But one thing that's bothering me a LOT is the fact that almost all of my games (even the ones I use thru cedega) blackout about every five minutes.

I'll be playing the game, and then the screen will go complete black. The game still runs, and a simple ctrl-alt-f6 followed by ctrl-alt-f7 brings all the graphics back up, but the five minutes later it all goes away again and I have to do it all over again. It's really irritating.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

The games it has happened on:
Quake 4
Doom 3
NWN (all 3)
Descent 3

Specs:
AMD 2700+
GEForce FX 5600 256mb
512mb ram
Kernel 2.6.4 (I think, whatever FC4 uses by default)
Fedora Core 4

**benjamin20** · 12-02-2005

thats strange, are you using the latest gfx drivers? how long have you been using this instalation of fc4 and what have you done to it thus far?

**afroguy013** · 12-02-2005

Yes- I'm using the latest drivers from nVidia.

I've been using FC4 for about a month now and haven't done anything to it but install codecs for music and movies (this is my entertainment box). I switched from Mandrake 10.1 hoping it would solve the problem (which mandriva also had), but it didn't.

**afroguy013** · 12-02-2005

My bad- my kernel version is 2.6.13

**onlinebacon** · 12-03-2005

Quake 4 is going to have a linux installer
Doom 3 does have one, try them, instead of cedega

**afroguy013** · 12-03-2005

Originally Posted by onlinebacon

Quake 4 is going to have a linux installer
Doom 3 does have one, try them, instead of cedega

I know... I use the quake 4 client. And the Doom client. And the NWN client. I said some of the games I run is Cedega do it too, i don't actually run those in cedega because they have a linux client. But it doesn't make a difference because they still blackout.

**onlinebacon** · 12-03-2005

It might just help if you compiled nvidia support into the kernel. I have heard you have to do it for ATI but not for nvidia, not sure but it might help you a bit.

Also, does it happen in all the desktop environments you use or just the one you are using now?

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 12-03-2005

i'd like to add that im having the same problem on my laptop and i have a geforce go 6600. it might be slightly different because the sound becomes choppy (i'm playing musio at the same time) and Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't have any effect. if it happens again, i'll try F6.

it seems like it could be a problem with X, and since games are running, it would override the normal commands. if there is a way to get out and force the server to close without having to restart, that would be greatly appreciated.

**afroguy013** · 12-04-2005

Originally Posted by onlinebacon

It might just help if you compiled nvidia support into the kernel. I have heard you have to do it for ATI but not for nvidia, not sure but it might help you a bit.

Also, does it happen in all the desktop environments you use or just the one you are using now?

I use Gnome but it has happened in KDE before too.

How do I compile the nVidia support into the kernel?

**afroguy013** · 12-06-2005

I upgraded to the latest nVidia drivers and ran quake 4 to see if it still happened. Less than 5 minutes into the game it blacked out again. This is starting to piss me off.

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