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Problems with Ubuntu 9.10 & HL2

  • 01-03-2010 9:33am
    #1
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭


    Hey all,

    Wondering if you could shed some light on a problem I'm having. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 at the weekend. It all went great, it picked up all my hardware and suggested installing the ATI FGLRX driver for my video card (ATI 4870 1Gb).

    It's been 100% stable when not gaming, it hasn't even hung momentarily. The problem is that when I'm running Team Fortress 2 (hl2.exe) the game just crashes randomly. Sometimes it'll give a "hl2.exe encountered an error and has to close" error message, sometimes it will just go to desktop and sometimes it will lock up the whole system forcing a reboot.

    I've tried and gotten this with the latest versions of Wine and Crossover Games, I've set them to run hl2 in Win98/2000/XP mode with no difference. I've tried using different sound drivers in Wine options, and even tried with no sound at all but still got the same issue.

    Any idea what might be causing this? And is there a minidump log file for Ubuntu like there is in Windows?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    No experience with it myself but it doesn't seem to be too stable generally.


  • #3
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    After a bit of searching around it looks like it might be the FGLRX video drivers at fault, I'll remove them and install the latest drivers from ATIs website later.


  • #4
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    OK, it wasn't the video drivers it was PulseAudio causing the crashes. I've removed PulseAudio which has solved the problem but now I'm missing the volume icon from the system tray. Still trying to find out how to get it back. :o


  • #5
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    I'm missing the volume icon from the system tray. Still trying to find out how to get it back. :o

    Right click in an empty spot, add to panel, volume control.


  • #6
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Khannie wrote: »
    Right click in an empty spot, add to panel, volume control.

    There is no volume control listed.


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