White Screen When Launching PlaneShift in Fullscreen Mode Under Ubuntu 8.10

[R. Phillip Castagna]

When launching PlaneShift in fullscreen mode there is about a 75% chance that it will just give a white screen that can not be exited, demanding a system re-boot. I don't have this trouble when running in windowed mode, however.

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 with an nvidia graphics card.

[selinuxium (selinuxium)]

Hi there,

I am using a nvidia geforce 8400m GS with the non-free drivers...
I cannot reproduce the problem.

Can you please report what nvidia card you are using - lspci | grep VGA
and the driver - grep modules/drivers /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[GonzoDark (gonzo-dark)]

Hello

I am using Ubuntu 8.10 with a Nvidia 6600 graphic card.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)

I am using: 'NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 177) [Recommended]

And I can sadly reproduce/confirm the error.

When I launch the game in window mode, it works perfectly - but when I use full screen mode, I get a white screen, and I am forced to reboot/restart the x-window.

I don't have the same problem with other games, just planeshift - and I would be grateful if anyone could fix this issue.

// GonzoDark

[GonzoDark (gonzo-dark)]

I have already located the culprit - when I deactivated Compiz (the desktop effects), the error vanished.

TEMP FIX: Deactivate compiz

So I guess the error is with compiz, not the game?

I hope someone can solve this - It would be nice to have both up and running at the same time. (So I am not forced to deactivate Compiz every time I want to play the game, and then activate it again afterwards.)

If you need anything, then let me know.

// GonzoDark

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Is this still a problem with Ubuntu 9.04? It sounds like a driver issue so the newer nvidia driver in that release may help.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!