black screen problem

[bilbous]

I aborted the game loading, I think before the login screen and now all I get is black screens for updater/setup and the game except I can also see some of the shapes of the 3d buttons in the setup and updater, any ideas if there is some setting in a config file I can delete to get it back to normal? I have not had problems previously. I tried updating manually but it did not help, perhaps there is a command-line setup solution I could try. Any suggestions?

I also re-installed ... no help there either.

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planeshift -verbose
Hmm perhaps it had to do with a new nvidia driver....... ah well I suppose I could try the windows client.
for the record: sempron 2800+ onboard gforce4 1gig ram hmm only 128 given to the video card perhaps I should bump it up not sure why it would suddenly go black though.

[bilbous]

After some mucking about, I believe I have somewhat sorted this out. Apparently the new nvidia drivers are in a state of transition from crt support to composite support and as yet OGL functionality with composite displays is experimental and not enabled by default. Unfortunately the Composite extension is -- at least in my case. Thus the solution that has allowed me to re-enter the game has been to comment out the line in xorg.conf which loads Composite support:

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Section "Extensions"
   # Option "Composite"
EndSection

I guess I should mention that if you have a composite monitor (plasma or lcd) there is an option to enable the experimental composite OGL driver, for more information check the README file produced by the proprietary Nvidia installer.
Hope somebody finds this of use.

[Jannis]

Compositing has nothing to do with CRT or LCD/Plasma monitors, it's used for "real transparency" on desktops (refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing ), examples to be seen here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency . Most drivers disable Direct rendering when Compositing is enabled, depends on your graphic card and driver.
Maybe one should best disable Compositing if it's not used.