Black screen on exiting full screen games.

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OpenSuse 11.3 with nVidia drivers.

I have the screen working fine though it only runs in 1600x1200@75 using the nVidia driver (GTX260 card).
When I play a game in full screen mode all seems OK but when I exit the game then I just get the mouse pointer on a black screen.
There must be something present since the cursor changes as I move it, normal pointer -> hand over a link etc. It’s just that black on black isn’t very readable.

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On 2010-07-18, tweetiepooh <tweetiepooh@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> OpenSuse 11.3 with nVidia drivers.
>
> I have the screen working fine though it only runs in 1600x1200@75
> using the nVidia driver (GTX260 card).
> When I play a game in full screen mode all seems OK but when I exit the
> game then I just get the mouse pointer on a black screen.
> There must be something present since the cursor changes as I move it,
> normal pointer -> hand over a link etc. It’s just that black on black
> isn’t very readable.

Same here, on a friends machine. Can’t remember the exact card, except it’s
an older nVidea AGP with passive cooling. He’s running openSUSE 11.2, and
the game was Torcs.

Any solutions welcome.

–
When in doubt, use brute force.
– Ken Thompson

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On 2010-07-19, Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> wrote:
> On 2010-07-18, tweetiepooh <tweetiepooh@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>>
>> OpenSuse 11.3 with nVidia drivers.
>>
>> I have the screen working fine though it only runs in 1600x1200@75
>> using the nVidia driver (GTX260 card).
>> When I play a game in full screen mode all seems OK but when I exit the
>> game then I just get the mouse pointer on a black screen.
>> There must be something present since the cursor changes as I move it,
>> normal pointer -> hand over a link etc. It’s just that black on black
>> isn’t very readable.
>
> Same here, on a friends machine. Can’t remember the exact card, except it’s
> an older nVidea AGP with passive cooling. He’s running openSUSE 11.2, and
> the game was Torcs.

I think the card was an FX5500.

–
When in doubt, use brute force.
– Ken Thompson

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Same problem for me

OpenSuse 11.3 Kde 64 Bits installed on desktop with : AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ / 2Gb CORSAIR DDR2 PC2-6400 - 800 MHz - CAS 4 / DD 320Gb Sata II / Nvidia 9600GT.
NVidia card 9600GT with proprietary 256.35 (problem still there with last 256.44)
I ran my desktop with LinuxMint, Mandriva, Kubuntu (both 32bits) and haven’t any problem like this with fullscreen games

How can we make to have a working solution ?

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Try to disable desktop effect (Alt-Shift + F12)
Seem works for me
(I run some windows games with wine on my opensuse 11.3 + nvidia driver)

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Yes of course it’s better desabling effects by Alt-Shift-F12 but with another distros it is not necessary because kwin manage those fullscreen apps correctly