Quake engine games freeze if video settings changed

[jhansonxi]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-tdfx

Xubuntu Hardy 8.04 beta.
3dfx Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.
Changing and applying video settings in the Quake engine based games Tremulous and Open Arena results in the games freezing with a band of corruption at the top of a black screen. Does not affect other games using 3D effects including Chromium and Planet Penguin Racer. Xorg log shows:
(EE) TDFX(0): DRIUnlock called when not locked.
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] [1106:0598] (rev 04)
     Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0000]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 [121a:0005] (rev 01)
     Subsystem: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Device [121a:003a]

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

The attached Open Arena log doesn't show any problems.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

The error was also reproduced using Timo Aaltonen tdfx package.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

weird, the DRIUnlock error sounds suspicious, but this isn't a driver I'm at all familiar with.

Can you compare running normally, and check Xorg.0.log to see if that line shows up when the freeze/corruption is not present? If it does, then it is probably unrelated to the freeze.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

I checked again and it does appear during normal X start at 16bpp depth but not 24bpp. It does not appear to be directly caused by the games.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

Just tested again with Intrepid and a Voodoo Banshee (PCI), Voodoo3 2000 (PCI), and a Voodoo3 3000 (AGP). OpenArena and Tremulous both fail if most any video setting is changed. When the settings are changed in either game they go through a shutdown (switching back to the desktop) then a re-init (SDL_Init) process. Tremulous never loads the GUI at this point while OpenArena loads to a corrupted screen. After the failures Tremulous CPU usage is at about 50% while OpenArena is near 90% (both normal for this K6-2 500MHz system). When killed from a terminal both seem to have an orderly shutdown. Chromium (non-Quake related) works normally except for some graphics anomalies with the "sound fx volume" menu item. rss_glx screensavers are normal (i.e. ugly by most modern video card standards).

Note: I'm passing the 3dfx cards I have off to someone on the mesa mailing list so I won't be able to provide more info or test results than the logs I'm attaching now.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

The glxinfo output is at the desktop default bpp of 24. I think the games are switching to 16bpp when running as the 3dfx cards only provide 3D acceleration at that depth.

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

This is true, 3dfx cards only probide 16bpp color depth

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

Hi jhansonxi,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

Copying my lspci dumps from bug #105629.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

I came across an old PCI Banshee card. The freeze still occurs on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). I only tested OpenArena at 16BPP.

X also seems to freeze if I switch to a VT with the game running full-screen. I can do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot from the VT.

I don't need the card. I'll ship it to whoever wants to fix the bug.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

jhansonxi, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 214439

Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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