Re: [SLUG] Two problems - any CLUE/LART accepted
James Gray wrote: Hi All, From the coercion of a colleague (hi Mike), I've done the "Quake3 thing" - something I've always resisted. I'm not a big FPS fan, RTS is more my thing, but anyway. The hardware: My system is a K8VSE-Deluxe AMD64-3000+ machine with an NVidia FX5700 card with TwinView (dual head) set up and working nicely with KDE. First Problem: Whilst hacking the bejeezus out of the Q3 installer to handle my AMD64 Kubuntu system, I realised the DVD-ROM has stopped running in DMA mode (WTF?). It used to, but I haven't used it in over 4 months and I think there was a kernel update in there somewhere. I've done the "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" but it just barfs and syslog dumps a "Drive Seek Error 0x51 etc" in dmesg (yes, hda, my SATA drive is the boot drive and is sda). Any ideas? I'm not in front of my AMD64 box so chipsets/exact-errors will come laterjust thought someone might have seen this before? Second Problem: After getting Quake3 running (yay me...I think) I have it displayed on the second monitor (on the right) in the bottom-left corner with only the top half of the image displayed (see ASCII art below). My primary monitor runs 1280x1024 and the secondary runs 1024x768 with "TwinView" handling all the multi-head stuff. Obviously 1/2 of a Q3 screen aint gonna get me anywhere so how can I force it onto the main dislpay at a reasonable resolution? You could run in windowed mode, if you can see enough of the settings menu, uncheck 'full screen', or hit alt-enter. I have seen Q3 display strangely if it's told to run in a resolution not actually listed in xorg.conf, have you tried setting Q3 resolution to 1024x768? If it runs OK apart from all that, can you let me know what nVidia card you're using? I have plain Ubuntu on AMD64, but 32 bit games run at a fairly bad framerate and have glitches with textures displaying strangely. eg, - | | | | |This is all black | | | Primary monitor is over there --> | | and is totally black. | Quake 3 | | | top 1/2 | | | here | | - Ideas anyone? I need dual head more than I need quake, but it would be nice not having to boot that other OS just for the occasional fragging. Is there a graphical twinview config thingy where you could temporarily disable the 2nd screen? (Only a dirty camper would have time to check their email while playing Q3.) =) -- Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Two problems - any CLUE/LART accepted
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:47 am, James Gray wrote: > First Problem: > Whilst hacking the bejeezus out of the Q3 installer to handle my AMD64 > Kubuntu system, I realised the DVD-ROM has stopped running in DMA mode > (WTF?). It used to, but I haven't used it in over 4 months and I think > there was a kernel update in there somewhere. I've done the "hdparm -d1 > /dev/hda" but it just barfs and syslog dumps a "Drive Seek Error 0x51 etc" > in dmesg (yes, hda, my SATA drive is the boot drive and is sda). Any > ideas? I'm not in front of my AMD64 box so chipsets/exact-errors will come > laterjust thought someone might have seen this before? OK - the DMA root cause has been identified: $grep -i dma /boot/config-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic ... CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y Ghoddammit! WHO put that in there?!? When?! Why? Any brain-waves on how to disable it without a kernel compile? I know how to build a kernel the "debain way" but I'd rather just stick with the distro's default kernels (coz I'm lazy and don't want to break stuff...like the NVidia package!). $sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) $lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South] :00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) :00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13) :00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) :00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) ... (snipped USB stuff and video card/AGP fru-fru) James -- "Dump the condiments. If we are to be eaten, we don't need to taste good." -- "Visionaries" cartoon pgpmUFU8r0e5x.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Two problems - any $CLUE/$LART accepted
Hi All, From the coersion of a colleague (hi Mike), I've done the "Quake3 thing" - something I've always resisted. I'm not a big FPS fan, RTS is more my thing, but anyway. The hardware: My system is a K8VSE-Deluxe AMD64-3000+ machine with an NVidia FX5700 card with TwinView (dual head) set up and working nicely with KDE. First Problem: Whilst hacking the bejeezus out of the Q3 installer to handle my AMD64 Kubuntu system, I realised the DVD-ROM has stopped running in DMA mode (WTF?). It used to, but I haven't used it in over 4 months and I think there was a kernel update in there somewhere. I've done the "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" but it just barfs and syslog dumps a "Drive Seek Error 0x51 etc" in dmesg (yes, hda, my SATA drive is the boot drive and is sda). Any ideas? I'm not in front of my AMD64 box so chipsets/exact-errors will come laterjust thought someone might have seen this before? Second Problem: After getting Quake3 running (yay me...I think) I have it displayed on the second monitor (on the right) in the bottom-left corner with only the top half of the image displayed (see ASCII art below). My primary monitor runs 1280x1024 and the secondary runs 1024x768 with "TwinView" handling all the multi-head stuff. Obviously 1/2 of a Q3 screen aint gonna get me anywhere so how can I force it onto the main dislpay at a reasonable resolution? eg, - | | | | |This is all black | | | Primary monitor is over there --> | | and is totally black. | Quake 3 | | | top 1/2 | | | here | | - Ideas anyone? I need dual head more than I need quake, but it would be nice not having to boot that other OS just for the occasional fragging. Cheers, James -- BOFH excuse #403: Sysadmin didn't hear pager go off due to loud music from bar-room speakers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Two problems - any CLUE/LART accepted
Hi All, From the coercion of a colleague (hi Mike), I've done the "Quake3 thing" - something I've always resisted. I'm not a big FPS fan, RTS is more my thing, but anyway. The hardware: My system is a K8VSE-Deluxe AMD64-3000+ machine with an NVidia FX5700 card with TwinView (dual head) set up and working nicely with KDE. First Problem: Whilst hacking the bejeezus out of the Q3 installer to handle my AMD64 Kubuntu system, I realised the DVD-ROM has stopped running in DMA mode (WTF?). It used to, but I haven't used it in over 4 months and I think there was a kernel update in there somewhere. I've done the "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" but it just barfs and syslog dumps a "Drive Seek Error 0x51 etc" in dmesg (yes, hda, my SATA drive is the boot drive and is sda). Any ideas? I'm not in front of my AMD64 box so chipsets/exact-errors will come laterjust thought someone might have seen this before? Second Problem: After getting Quake3 running (yay me...I think) I have it displayed on the second monitor (on the right) in the bottom-left corner with only the top half of the image displayed (see ASCII art below). My primary monitor runs 1280x1024 and the secondary runs 1024x768 with "TwinView" handling all the multi-head stuff. Obviously 1/2 of a Q3 screen aint gonna get me anywhere so how can I force it onto the main dislpay at a reasonable resolution? eg, - | | | | |This is all black | | | Primary monitor is over there --> | | and is totally black. | Quake 3 | | | top 1/2 | | | here | | - Ideas anyone? I need dual head more than I need quake, but it would be nice not having to boot that other OS just for the occasional fragging. Cheers, James -- BOFH excuse #403: Sysadmin didn't hear pager go off due to loud music from bar-room speakers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
