black screen after several secs, everything freezes (Linux)

[Black Mesa Security]

Hello.

I had no problem with Nexuiz 2.4 on Linux. With 2.5 when I start playing (eg. not in menu) screen turns black in several seconds, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt-F[1-7] doesn't do anything and keyboard leds (including HDD led) freezes too (eg. they don't blink even once). I have to restart computer.

There isn't anything informative in system logs nor in nexuiz output.

nexuiz-glx.log: http://pastebin.com/f32a9de4b
nexuiz-sdl.log: http://pastebin.com/f16803cdb

Laptop: Acer TravelMate 4650
OS: Arch Linux, kernel 2.6.29
VGA: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go 6600] (rev a2)
VGA driver: nVidia 180.44-1

VGA configuration in xorg.conf:

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Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "NoLogo"                 "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel"            "True"
    Option         "ModeValidation"         "NoXServerModes"
    #Option         "TripleBuffer"   "True"
    #Option         "BackingStore" "True"
    #Option         "PixmapCacheSize" "300000"
    #Option         "OnDemandVBlanketerrupts" "True"
EndSection


Thanks for any suggestion. I will make anything that could help to resolve this.

[esteel]

At first look it could be a driver problem.. i'm using a nv 8800m gtx with 185.13 beta drivers. all 2.4, 2.5 and current dev version work fine for me.

I have a bit more in my xorg.conf but i doubt thats the reason for the crash:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
Option "NoLogo"
Option "TwinView"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite"
Option "BackingStore"
Option "Coolbits" "3"
Option "RenderAccel"
Option "TripleBuffer"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
EndSection


The render did not change very much from 2.4 to 2.5. You can try if

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r_coronas_occlusionquery 0
vid_restart

in the console does help.. or try playing at lower settings (click on the 'low' button in 'Settings/video')

[Black Mesa Security]

So I set effects to "Low" and changed my xorg.conf Device section to this:

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Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "NoLogo"
    Option         "RenderAccel"
    Option         "ModeValidation"         "NoXServerModes"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite"
    Option         "BackingStore"
    Option         "TripleBuffer"
EndSection

And voila ... one Instant Action without freeze .

Thanks for help.

Btw, do you know what was the problem?

[esteel]

Not after you changed so much.. try one after the other..