[Bug 24598] New: And Yet It Moves gives only black screen

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24598

Summary: And Yet It Moves gives only black screen
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.4
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://www.andyetitmoves.net/demo/And%20Yet%20It%20Mov
                    es%20Demo%20v1.1.1%20Setup.exe
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=31063)
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console output

The game (latest version is 1.1.1) shows a totally black screen on startup.
Even if I set a virtual desktop sized smaller than my display resolution, my
whole desktop turns into black. I cannot alt-tab back to the window manager
either.
Actually, the game is running: if you wait for a minute you can hear the music
of the main menu, but you cannot see anything.

The issue is reproducible in the demo, too.

The game started correctly in Wine-1.1.29 for me and here's the result of my
regression testing:

7b285a4ebd63eab428e968968ca398cc1076324a is the first bad commit
commit 7b285a4ebd63eab428e968968ca398cc1076324a
Author: André Hentschel 
Date:   Sat Sep 19 19:08:09 2009 +0200

winex11: Add alternative header for xf86vm.

:100755 100755 e32773bbe4d75257918f86bb748649899ae9ca82
ae5beac96d9f3775866584d10d0951f9e4c13bc5 M    configure
:100644 100644 ac5a8613be96bea84c73e52414eb37cdff3cf437
0f37bc75d952b71aa51bfa184d95f62aae489a09 M    configure.ac
:040000 040000 0b13bdb9fcc6833c075e19e2b60d31496439a78a
fa6f97b5e92f91457fc0bb5f0e9e490641faaffd M    dlls
:040000 040000 3fbdaf6dd278ebeb0ad4141ff3e0c2c5a77bcff9
635be6c8e884b6af4b56b0eb487c47eedccba58d M    include

Reverting the patch on top of Wine-1.3.4 was successful and that fixed the
issue.

Author of the patch added to CC.

Wine-1.3.4 compiled from source
Fedora 13
Xorg-1.8.2 from Fedora's repository (all header files needed to compile Wine
are installed)
Nvidia 7600 / driver 256.53

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--- Comment #1 from GyB  2010-10-02 05:53:17 CDT ---
I found a way to restore my desktop after the black screen, without restarting
the X server:
In the terminal you launched the game kill the process by CTRL+C and type
blindly: nvidia-settings <Enter>. This opens up the Nvidia control panel and
restores the screen.
Of course, this only works if you have the Nvidia proprietary drivers are
installed.

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--- Comment #2 from André H.  2010-10-02 06:59:40 CDT ---
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use only one of the headers

Hi,
the patch was for bug 20070.
I am suprised that this causes errors.
Can you please try the attached patch

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--- Comment #3 from GyB  2010-10-02 07:18:36 CDT ---
The patch works and the game now starts correctly.

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--- Comment #4 from GyB  2010-10-02 07:43:53 CDT ---
Well..it might be a dupe of bug #12912.
I remembered testing the application in #12912 a couple of months ago, but it
was reported against Wine-0.9.60 so I didn't know it is a regression. At least
the symptoms were the same and I gave it a try again.
André's patch fixes the issue in that app, too.

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--- Comment #5 from André H.  2010-10-02 08:09:07 CDT ---
patch sent

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--- Comment #6 from André H.  2010-10-04 12:00:06 CDT ---
patch was rejected.
i am not a winex11 pro, so i have actually no idea and no time. sry.
i just added the header back than to fix bug 20070.

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--- Comment #7 from David  2010-11-26 16:39:26 CST ---
Steam had a bundle on sale that included this, so now I get to report that it's
not just GyB.
Kubuntu 10.04, nVidia Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1), Wine
1.3.6-0ubuntu1~lucidppa1

Since I don't want to recompile wine every new release, is there anyway we
users (with a little dev experience) can help try to get the patch into an
acceptable state so it can be merged?

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--- Comment #8 from Mr Nobody  2010-11-30 22:09:23 CST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Steam had a bundle on sale that included this, so now I get to report that it's
> not just GyB.
> Kubuntu 10.04, nVidia Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1), Wine
> 1.3.6-0ubuntu1~lucidppa1
>
> Since I don't want to recompile wine every new release, is there anyway we
> users (with a little dev experience) can help try to get the patch into an
> acceptable state so it can be merged?

Against crossover-games 9.2

With linux -- blackscreen, all else mentioned apparent (btw, ctrl-alt-backspace
will restore X for relogin)...strange it bollocks X so hard. Does not honor
emulate virtual desktop at all -- Steam version comes with config.xml file --
editing this so that 'fullscreen=false' has no effect, app still goes for a
fullscreen blackness startup. Sound is working, mousing about in blackness
triggers sound events.

With crossover-games-9.2 and OSX (10.6.5) there is no apparent issues running
this steamapp...works at gold or such...

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--- Comment #9 from Vincent Povirk  2011-01-20 12:13:07 CST ---
I spent some time poking at this but haven't found the cause. It looks like the
game checks the original gamma when it starts, then restores the original value
when it exits. So I'm guessing it does some calculation of the in-game gamma
that fails.

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--- Comment #10 from Luis Alvarado  2011-05-01 14:28:46 CDT ---
i can cofirm. THe black screen appears after starting the game and stays there.
It even goes fullscreen even though i told wind to use 1024x768 (even while
using the command like /desktop=name,1024x768)

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--- Comment #11 from André H.  2011-08-09 13:22:18 CDT ---
confirmed by enough comments

(In reply to comment #9)
> I spent some time poking at this but haven't found the cause. It looks like the
> game checks the original gamma when it starts, then restores the original value
> when it exits. So I'm guessing it does some calculation of the in-game gamma
> that fails.

The gamma code is quite old and my patch enabled more of it again with newer
Distros/X11.
I would like to trace that down some more, but i have none of the failing games
nor a testcase.
We should at least have a +xvidmode log here, that would be great.

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--- Comment #12 from GyB  2011-08-09 13:31:39 CDT ---
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+xvidmode debug log (Wine-1.3.26)

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--- Comment #13 from André H.  2011-08-09 15:38:39 CDT ---
thx for the log

workaround:
switch to console(e.g. tty1) and run:
xgamma -gamma 1.0

i'm working on a fix

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--- Comment #14 from André H.  2011-08-10 16:01:39 CDT ---
just sent a patchset, the bug fix is in:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2011-August/105372.html

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--- Comment #15 from GyB  2011-08-10 21:57:27 CDT ---
The patch fixes the problem not just in And Yet It Moves but in Torque Game
Builder (bug #12912), too.

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--- Comment #16 from GyB  2011-08-21 02:06:51 CDT ---
I came across another game, GODS: Lands of Infinity, which is also affected by
commit 7b285a4ebd63eab428e968968ca398cc1076324a
winex11: Add alternative header for xf86vm.

Unlike And Yet It Moves, GODS sets the gamma to a very bright level on startup
and the screen appears in glowing white with some psychedelic colors. Not just
the game window but the whole Gnome desktop turns to white so I hardly see
anything.

The workaround, setting 'xgamma -gamma 1.0' while the game is running fixes the
problem. However, the patch in comment #14 didn't work in the case of GODS.
Does that mean it should be reported as  a separate bug?

The demo for GODS:LoI (312 MB download size):
http://www.fileplanet.com/156544/150000/fileinfo/GODS:-Lands-of-Infinity-Dem...

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--- Comment #17 from André H.  2011-08-21 06:43:12 CDT ---
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tracing patch

Downloading takes quite long here. Instead could you please use this patch on
top of wine-1.3.26 and attach a trace with +xvidmode of that game (the patch
also should hack around the bug)

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--- Comment #18 from GyB  2011-08-21 07:23:42 CDT ---
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7zipped +xvidmode log (uncompressed 2.2 MB)

Indeed, with the newly attached patch the problem seems to go away. 
As a consequence of the patch, brightness control became ineffective in the
game's option menu.

Here's how the attached log was created:
I also added -d3d,-d3d_texture debug channels to suppress the millions of
fixmes. I started the game (a long loading stage is coming) then I skipped the
intro videos. When the menu appeared I went to Options and tried to change the
brightness level (it had no effect).

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--- Comment #19 from André H.  2011-08-21 07:32:45 CDT ---
> Indeed, with the newly attached patch the problem seems to go away. 
> As a consequence of the patch, brightness control became ineffective in the
> game's option menu.

Of course, the patch deactivates the gamma setting. What seems harder is that
the curves seems valid (too bright, but valid) so it's ok to accept them. The
problem might be that some calculation with a value from somewhere else results
in that bright curve. This means it should be a seperate bug (feel free to CC
me when you create one)

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--- Comment #20 from GyB  2011-08-21 08:02:16 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> > Indeed, with the newly attached patch the problem seems to go away. 
> > As a consequence of the patch, brightness control became ineffective in the
> > game's option menu.
>
> Of course, the patch deactivates the gamma setting. What seems harder is that
> the curves seems valid (too bright, but valid) so it's ok to accept them. The
> problem might be that some calculation with a value from somewhere else results
> in that bright curve. This means it should be a seperate bug (feel free to CC
> me when you create one)

I opened bug #24598 for the problem in Gods:LoI.

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--- Comment #21 from GyB  2011-08-21 08:03:14 CDT ---
Sorry, I meant bug #28146 was opened...

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--- Comment #22 from Mr Nobody  2011-08-21 16:29:44 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> The patch fixes the problem not just in And Yet It Moves but in Torque Game
> Builder (bug #12912), too.

..ftr, the patch also fixes S.P.A.Z. in this regard - it uses the Torque engine

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                   |398cc1076324a               |

--- Comment #23 from André H.  2011-08-23 12:57:31 CDT ---
in fact this wasn't a regression in the real meaning IMHO but a dup of bug
12912.
my patch just enabled you to see the existing bug with newer headers.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12912 ***

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--- Comment #24 from GyB  2011-08-23 13:53:55 CDT ---
Closing