Beryl and Unreal Tournament

Perps · 04-16-2007, 09:03 AM

Greetings to all.

I've just successfully installed Unreal Tournament GOTY. I can start the game successfully, but as soon as I try and load a map, or change the screen resolution from the default 640x480, it crashes with:

Code:

Resizing SDL viewport. X: 1280 Y: 1024
OpenGL
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContextTag
  Major opcode of failed request:  148 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  144 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  5445
  Current serial number in output stream:  5446
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]
Aborting.

I've done a bit of reading around that indicates that Beryl may be causing the conflict. This post here suggests altering the UnrealTournament.ini as follows:

Edit UnrealTournament.ini and change
OpenGLLibName=libGL.so.1
to
OpenGLLibName=/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
if using nVidia.

If using ATI, change it to
OpenGLLibName=/usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa

Is Beryl + 3D gaming achievable? I've read some other threads that suggested starting another x session. I gave this a try with startx -- :2 etc, but it starts another x session with Beryl present.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks,

- Perps

jiml8 · 04-16-2007, 09:13 AM

Why not just turn off beryl in either your default X session or in your new one? Easy enough to do if you run the beryl manager; just choose the window manager you want.

I have also noticed (I have nvidia graphics) that if I specify the "force nvidia" choice for the rendering engine I have problems switching consoles, but if I specify the "force aiglx" choice I can switch consoles without trouble. Usually games render in their own root window on their own console so it could be that you are having a similar problem.

cybertaz · 04-16-2007, 09:37 AM

Unreal works just fine for me, all I have to do is switch beryl to kwin(I use KDE) using the beryl-manager.

Perps · 04-16-2007, 10:13 AM

Thankyou all for your replies.

I've created another account. How do I set it so that it does not start beryl at login, as it is currently doing at the moment.

Many thanks,

- Perps.

cybertaz · 04-16-2007, 10:33 AM

How do you have beryl set to auto start? Are you using KDE or Gnome?

If you followed this:
http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl#Configuration

It shouldn't be starting automatically for every user.

Perps · 04-16-2007, 08:50 PM

Hey cybertaz,

I followed the link you posted when I setup Beryl ages ago. Interestingly though, I never had to set Beryl to start myself, it seemed to do it automatically. I just checked the sessions tool in the Gnome control panel, and I could find no reference to beryl or beryl-manager in the startup tab. Beryl is definitely running though.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

- Perps.

cybertaz · 04-17-2007, 09:26 AM

No. You have me. I use KDE and had to set it to auto-start.

Do you have a $home/.gnome/autostart folder? (. means hidden file/folder) you may have to show hidden files, I don't how to do that in Gnome.

Perps · 04-17-2007, 07:47 PM

Haha, stupid me.

I had xgl/compiz running the whole time, not Beryl. I added beryl and beryl-manager to startup items in sessions and now I have beryl running properly. Unreal Tournament runs smooth as silk under beryl with no problems. Thankyou to everyone for your help.

- Perps.