Dom3 crashes my Linux laptop

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Originally Posted by ramarren

For me Dominions3 runs with no problems on laptop with Gentoo, Intel GMA950 graphics, Xorg 7.2, Mesa 7.3 and xf86-video-intel 2.5.1-r1.

Nice to know! Thank you for your reply, maybe you can help me. Actually dom3 worked perfectly on my laptop until a few months ago (don't remember exactly when problems started). Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems you are using masked packages. Indeed the version of mesa I run is 6.5 and the version of intel driver 2.1.1 Pretty older than yours. So hopefully updating to your config will solve my issue. Could you please post your /etc/portage/package.use file?

Originally Posted by ramarren

What do you mean exactly by "crashes"? In my experience most outright system freezes are driver related, with Intel audio drivers more likely a culprit... what is your audio setup? Try running dom3 with "-s -m" options to disable sound and music.

By "crashes" I mean the X session first freezes, ignoring keyboard and mouse, then it crashes forcing me to a console, which in turn becomes unresponsive and I'm finally greeted with a black screen... I've to hard reboot to restart the system. And yes, it's definitely a video problem: running doom3 with the switches you suggested doesn't change its behaviour at all.