Thanks to all who replied! Following the outlined steps, I can now switch to full-screen for games :) However I am still encountering some "abnormalities": 1) using AVIplay to play AVIs or ASFs, I can now switch to full-screen modewithout X dying on me. However, the results of the full-screen mode aren't entirely consistent. For instance, if the video window was first maximised to fill the entire screen, the full-screen mode looks nice enough. But if the video window were at any other size, full-screen mode would result in a small video screen with large black border all around. 2) The same thing happens with MTV for MPEG playback. The only difference is that there's no way to maximise the video window to fill the entire screen in the first place, so I can't get the "proper" full-screen effect at all. 3) XMovie and XMMS-SMPEG all still segfault immediately upon any attempt to playback MPEG videos. I wonder whether these are problems only encountered by users of 3Dfx Banshee cards, or ALL 3Dfx cards i.e. including the Voodoo3 variants? Many thanks in advance. On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Sam, Francisco had it right in his reply to my message! Don't do a > graphical login. In my case, I opened a shell, typed in (as su) > "Xconfigurator", and picked my normal: > > 1024x768 res > 16bit depth > > but when it asked me if I wanted a graphical login, I said -NO-. Then, > from the console login, I logon with my normal user account, type in > startx, and all works fine. MTV, Xmms with the SMPEG plugin, all games. > The Shogo demo even, which I couldn't get to work under my old setup > (v7.0 and v7.1) now works fine in full screen. > > Hurrah! (and thanks Francisco!) ;-)
