Bug#768480: lincity-ng: Start Up Causes Black Screen After Booting Latest Kernel

[Markus Koschany]

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On 07.11.2014 18:16, David L. Craig wrote:
> Package: lincity-ng
> Version: 2.0-4+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After applying normal morning Sid update, launching lincity-ng in
> XFCE environment brings up black screen with centered X-pointer and
> non-functional mouse buttons.  After about half a minute, nouveau
> complains in kern.log:
> 
> E[lincity-ng[2108]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [lincity-ng[2108]]
> 
> Killing lincity with HUP locks up the system for about half a minute.


Hello,

I don't believe this is related to lincity-ng because the game has not
been updated for quite some time, but rather to a change in the kernel
or your nouveau drivers. I can confirm that lincity-ng works with the
free radeon drivers on my system.

What happens if you try to play other games such as megaglest,
foobillardplus or cube2-data?

What happens if you use the proprietary Nvidia drivers?

What happens if you install the experimental version of LinCity-NG,
2.9~beta-2 ?


There are a lot of search hits for

"failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 "

that indicate that this might be a driver issue.

Regards,

Markus


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