[ale] Re: Q3 killing X

[David S. Jackson]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:10:12PM -0500 David S. Jackson <dsj at sylvester.dsj.net> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm running Slack 8.1 w/ X 4.2.0 and a GeForce2 MX 400 and the
> appropriate nvidia drivers.  The GLCore and glx modules all seem to load
> error free.  No problems.
> 
> When I run Q3, however, I get the following in my XFree.0.log:
> 
> SwitchToMode - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
>                hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> 	       vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> 
> On VT1, where I launch X from, I see:
> 
> xinit:  connection to X server lost.
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 939, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 970, errno = 0

Turns out this problem came from not setting my ulimit to unlimited.
Once I did that, Q3 ran like a charm.  Just had to ensure that +set
r_gldriver pointed to the nvidia GL libs too.  

Next is brightening the display.  In Q3, the brightness adjustment in
Settings, Graphics, Brightness is greyed out: can't use it.  So I'm
experimenting with /r_fullbrightness and /r_gamma N.N and /vid_reset in
the Q3 console.  It's getting better at least!

-- 
David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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