I got the ATI drivers running and everything seemed fine, I ran the command "Doom3" from a terminal window (I could only get the X display to operate if I was in XFCE), now I get the begining of the game where it boots and says it's initialzing everything, but that's all I see. The last thing that's on the screen is the background and the "Initializing Menus", then the screen goes compleatly black and I can hear the sound of the heartbeat that's supposed to show the beating heart amongst the machinery with the ID stamped on it, but I don't, just a blank/black screen. the machine seems to lock after that's done as I can't get out of it via the ESC key or anything.

I am running Slack 11 on a 2.4 kernel with 786 Megs of RAM (Former Windows machine :P) and a 20 gig harddrive that isn't even 1/2 full.

Pantherman

I had similar problems with nvidia drivers. Logo played ok, but at the menu it just seemed to freeze, although sound was playing ok.

I've come under the assumption that it may be 2 things, #1, I'm running 64 bit video drivers on a 32 bit system (64 was all that ATI offered, desptie the links) and #2, I'm trying to run the game(s)(tried running Quake4, with the same results) from inside the termnial, since I don't know how to start X-windows without invoking XFCE via the 'startx' command. I thought that I might be able to do a 'xterm quake4-demo' but that failed.


Pantherman

I dont think running XFCE will be a problem. I use fluxbox and I can start games fine from xterm or mrxvt