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From: "Michal Žeravík" <michalz@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] quake4 black screen
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:33:17
Message-Id: 438855B5.9020201@olomouc.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] quake4 black screen by Eric Augustus
1 Eric Augustus wrote:
2 > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:21:29PM +0100, Michal ?erav?k wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi all,
5 >>
6 >> anyone tried to install quake4-bin?
7 >> I've installed
8 >> games-fps/quake4-bin-1.0.5 +alsa -cdinstall -dedicated +opengl
9 >> but when I've run quake4, see "Initializing menus" and then black screen.
10 >>
11 >>
12 >
13 > I have it installed and had some initial problems with the display. By
14 > default Q4 is set to 'seta r_mode "3"', which is supposed to be 640x480.
15 > However, on my system (native resolution is 1920x1200), it tried to set
16 > 640x1200, so half the screen was black.
17 >
18 > Try editing the file, ~/.quake4/q4base/Quake4Config.cfg, and changing
19 > the r_mode to "4" or "5". I tried "5", which is 1024x768, and got a
20 > whole screen.
21 >
22 > seta r_mode "5"
23 >
24 > BTW, if you are using alsa for sound, Q4 sets it to use the default pcm,
25 > which sounded pretty crappy on my Audigy2. I switched it to use
26 > surround51 and got pretty decent sound. You can change the sound to one
27 > of the listed configs in /usr/share/alsa/pcm/*.conf by setting:
28 >
29 > seta s_alsa_pcm "surround51"
30 >
31 > in ~/.quake4/q4base/Quake4Config.cfg
32 >
33 >
34
35 I think problem is in audio system. getting a lot of this in console :
36
37 preparing audio device for output
38 preparing audio device for output
39 ....
40
41 michal

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