QuakeIII all i get is a black screen.

[Crackmunch]

Last night I had to reinstall Mandrake 8 cause it toasted for some reason. But I was working on reinstalling Quake and finished that and then did the point release. But all im getting is a black screen. Any ideas on what could be happening? Thanks for the help.

[bwkaz]

Do you run it from the command line? If so, redirect the output (both stdout and stderr) to one or two log files. Take a look at that file.

Example: quake3 > file.txt 2&>1 should redirect both stdout and stderr.

Once the black screen comes up, hit Ctrl-C or whatever you do to kill it.

Then look at the file for error messages. Let us know.

[Crackmunch]

unfortunetly nothing is showing in those files. Could it be how im installing the point release? Im installing it by copying it to a directory and then extracing it and copying the appriate files into the approrite directories.

[bwkaz]

If nothing is in those files, then there aren't any messages coming out of the executable.

I have no experience with Q3, so I don't know how to install the point release, so I don't know if that might be it.

Sorry :(

[Roy Smith]

what video card and do you boot directly to kde? if the card is a geforce and you use kde, try logging out, restart in terminal mode, login and then start kde with "startx". if that works, then the "fix" -more of a workaround, really - can be found in other posts on this site.
if none of the above applies, then please ignore me. :)


otoh, if it does apply, check this: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=013696

[ 15 September 2001: Message edited by: Roy Smith ]