Re: [gentoo-amd64] quake4 black screen

[Michal Žeravík]

Eric Augustus wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:21:29PM +0100, Michal ?erav?k wrote: Hi all, anyone tried to install quake4-bin? I've installed games-fps/quake4-bin-1.0.5 +alsa -cdinstall -dedicated +opengl but when I've run quake4, see "Initializing menus" and then black screen. I have it installed and had some initial problems with the display. By default Q4 is set to 'seta r_mode "3"', which is supposed to be 640x480. However, on my system (native resolution is 1920x1200), it tried to set 640x1200, so half the screen was black. Try editing the file, ~/.quake4/q4base/Quake4Config.cfg, and changing the r_mode to "4" or "5". I tried "5", which is 1024x768, and got a whole screen. seta r_mode "5" BTW, if you are using alsa for sound, Q4 sets it to use the default pcm, which sounded pretty crappy on my Audigy2. I switched it to use surround51 and got pretty decent sound. You can change the sound to one of the listed configs in /usr/share/alsa/pcm/*.conf by setting: seta s_alsa_pcm "surround51" in ~/.quake4/q4base/Quake4Config.cfg I think problem is in audio system. getting a lot of this in console : preparing audio device for output preparing audio device for output .... michal