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..I'm running Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4 with a Geforce 550Ti. Post install and patching, on cx 1.0.3, when hitting play (multiple times post the known "patching process" error, it goes to change resolution to full screen and ends up completely black with a slight "L" shaped border around the bottom and does not play any video. It takes a hard reboot to get out of that mode. I should mention that when running Ubuntu 11.10 with the same video card and cx 1.0.2, that I had no issues.

Heather

Heather Lantz wrote:

..I'm running Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4 with a Geforce 550Ti. Post install
and patching, on cx 1.0.3, when hitting play (multiple times post
the known "patching process" error, it goes to change resolution to
full screen and ends up completely black with a slight "L" shaped
border around the bottom and does not play any video. It takes a
hard reboot to get out of that mode. I should mention that when
running Ubuntu 11.10 with the same video card and cx 1.0.2, that I
had no issues.

Heather

Hello,

Sorry you are having trouble. Here's a few tips that might help you:

• if you find that the screen becomes unresponsive there is still a good chance that the system has not croaked. Drop to a console by doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 (There are usually 6 ttys readily available). There you log in and after that do:

sudo service lightdm stop
sudo service lightdm restart

This will restart the X server and everything else. I found that compiz in Ubuntu 12.04 is rather fussy.

There is also a regression in either ubuntu or wine that affects some applications: Starcraft 2 and Internet Explorer 7 are examples just over the top of my head. I seem to remember reading somewhere that RIFT was affected too. So before trying to play RIFT again do this in a terminal window (open dash with the windows key, type terminal and press [enter]):

```echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope```

Hopefully this will let you play your game. Good luck.