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General / Re: Aquaria and Linux

« on: May 06, 2010, 10:06:39 pm »

Hi Elwro,

Hello! Unfortunately, the Aquaria Linux version I bought via the Humble Bundle does not run on my Ubuntu 9.10 i386 32bit with the official nVidia drivers. My resolution is 1440x900; when I run the game, the screen goes black with an "out of range" message. The only thing I can do is shut down Gnome.

Any pointers? Any logs you'd like my computer to create?

This behaviour is caused by the NVidia closed source driver and TwinView mode. This causes the graphic adapter to report wrong monitor refresh rates. Try to run xrandr and you see what I mean. It will most likely report rates as low as 50 Hz for your display.

Even if its german have a look at my posting over at ubuntuusers.de:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/nvidia-propritaerer-treiber-19-lcd-falsche-re/

You may also refer to:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/92599

The solution is to add the following line to the screen section within xorg.conf:
 Option "DynamicTwinView" "0"

This way the driver will report the correct refresh rates.

It's really strange that NVidia hasn't adressed this problem since it  maycauses problem with every native Linux game.

Cheers,
D$