Black Screen on Linux

Discussion in 'Support!' started by manianac, August 15, 2013.

  1. manianac

    manianac New Member

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    Someone please correct me if I've missed an important thread, but I am unable to get PA running on
    Linux. It will start, but stay a black screen, while the steam UI overlay works fine. I've confirmed Vsync off in Catalyst Control Panel, but otherwise am not aware of anything else to try. I will also note that I've confirmed my Steam account and Uber accounts are linked. What else can I do?

    Steam HW Info:
    Code:
    Processor Information:
        Vendor:  GenuineIntel
        Speed: 2794 Mhz
        8 logical processors
        4 physical processors
        HyperThreading:  Supported
        FCMOV:  Supported
        SSE2:  Supported
        SSE3:  Supported
        SSSE3:  Supported
        SSE4a:  Unsupported
        SSE41:  Supported
        SSE42:  Supported
      
    Network Information:
        Network Speed:
      
    Operating System Version:
        "Gentoo Base System release 2.2" (64 bit)
        Kernel Name:  Linux
        Kernel Version:  3.8.13-gentoo
        X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
        X Server Release:  11304000
        X Window Manager:  KWin
        Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-06-28
      
    Video Card:
        Driver:  ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
    
        Driver Version:  4.2.12217 Compatibility Profile Context 8.98
        Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
        Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
        VendorID Not Detected
        DeviceID Not Detected
        Number of Monitors:  1
        Number of Video Cards Not Detected
        Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
        Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
        Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.77"  (23.98" diag)
                                                53.1cm x 29.9cm  (60.9cm diag)
        Primary VRAM Not Detected
      
    Sound card:
        Audio device: Realtek ALC888
      
    Memory:
        RAM:  7979 Mb
      
    Miscellaneous:
        UI Language:  English
        LANG:  none
        Microphone:  Not set
        Total Hard Disk Space Available:  938580 Mb
        Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  777806 Mb
      
    Installed software:
      
    Recent Failure Reports:
    Coherent_UI.log
    Code:
    4489 23:08:56.196977 I | Initializing Coherent UI ver. 1.4.0.0
    4489 23:08:56.197010 D | Coherent UI system settings:
    4489 23:08:56.197029 D | HostDirectory {/home/emailer33/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Planetary Annihilation/host}
    4489 23:08:56.197037 D | EnableProxy {0}
    4489 23:08:56.197043 D | AllowCookies {0}
    4489 23:08:56.197049 D | CookiesResource {}
    4489 23:08:56.197055 D | CachePath {}
    4489 23:08:56.197061 D | HTML5LocalStoragePath {/home/emailer33/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/localstore}
    4489 23:08:56.197067 D | ForceDisablePluginFullscreen {1}
    4489 23:08:56.197072 D | DisableWebSecurity {1}
    4489 23:08:56.197078 D | DebuggerPort {9999}
    4489 23:08:56.197083 D | WriteMinidumps {0}
    4489 23:08:56.197089 D | MinidumpFolder {}
    4489 23:08:56.197094 D | Is using default log handler {yes}
    4489 23:08:56.197100 D | Is using default file handler {yes}
    4489 23:08:56.197105 D | Is using default allocator {yes}
    PA Log
    Code:
    [19:11:13.339] INFO Log file /home/emailer33/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/log/PA-19-11-13.339.txt opened
    [19:11:13.339] INFO FILE
    [19:11:13.339] INFO S: /home/emailer33/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/log/PA-19-11-13.339.txt
    [19:11:13.339] INFO L: /user/log/PA-19-11-13.339.txt
    [19:11:13.507] INFO GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
    [19:11:13.507] INFO GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
    [19:11:13.507] INFO GL_VERSION: 4.2.12217 Compatibility Profile Context 8.98
    [19:11:13.507] INFO GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.20
    [19:11:14.706] INFO Configure, 1280 by 720
    [19:11:14.706] INFO build version 51853
    [19:11:14.706] INFO Coherent content root: "file:///home/emailer33/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Planetary Annihilation/media/ui/"
    [19:11:14.706] INFO Coherent host dir: "/home/emailer33/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Planetary Annihilation/host"
    [19:11:14.706] INFO Coherent local store: "/home/emailer33/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/localstore"
    [19:11:14.780] ERROR reconItemLayerFromString encountered unknown value: [all]
    
    [19:11:14.820] INFO {{FMOD}} fmod buffer size 5
    [19:11:14.843] INFO Setting graphics to high
    Also love the game, plays great on Win7 64.
  2. SXX

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    Actually you need to enable: tear free and vsync. Compositing also required if you don't want to have issues with cursor.
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    Alright, turned on tear free, which in turn sets Vsync to Always On. Checked Xorg log, verified composite is enabled.

    Still have a black screen :(. Is there anything else I can try, any more in depth log files to check or a command-line parameter to pass in steam?
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    You can try it on latest Catalyst beta. Or use latest Mesa from git...
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    I guess thats all thats left. Thank you. For the time being I'll just have to reboot into Windows.
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