warsow installed with soft ware center

DId you installed the hardware drivers for your video card? Via : system: management: hardware drivers?
Do you have 3d acceleration?

yes! nvidia 185 recommended but dont use it i like 173 drivers best with normal setting ..

so glxinfo | grep direct
gives: direct rendering: Yes?

what is the outcome of: less /var/log/xorg.0.log are there any errors?
when starting warsow via the terminal which errors are seen?

the first says command not found .. the next one says no such file or directory ..

glxinfo | grep direct in the terminal gives command not found??

/var/log/xorg.0.log is a log, found in systemlog.....(system: management etc,.)

when playing 3 d games desktopeffects should be disabled!

i disabled desktop effects had no effect , removed nvidia drivers ,was able to get it to load but it was unusable .. could not get any thing to work ,so i went to synaptic package manager and did a complete removal .. cube 2 works fine, open arena works , alien arena will work took about 2 day to get it to work '' "myself and members of launchpad "" ... any new ideals ??

still waiting for help for help to install and be able to play warsow .....

this will solve your question: http://www.warsow.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10377
the r_ignorehwgamma 1 part

 none of the info there helped . what do you do with r_ignorehwgamma 1 part ,,, how do you get the start up error ? so it can be read ... when i get the white screen the pc is frozen . have to press and hold the power button to restart the pc ..

when starting warsow via the terminal which errors are seen?

how do you start warsow in the terminal ?

ok ! i found how to run in terminal .. got the same white block as it i had clicked the menu listing ..

 i put the visual effects at none run warsow in terminal and got sound but displayed same white block...

I have Ubuntu 9.10, installed Warsow; the first time I ran it, I had options...so I tried to run a demo, clicked on the tutorial that was the only option, and system froze on filelist like menu...

Afterwards and since (and after a reinstallation), I only get a change of resolution to my desktop and nothing else happens...

warsow will not work on my pc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i have given up ; and un-installed ....

I gave up trying to install Warsow on my laptop, but I did get it running on my desktop: an interesting game (in the geek concept anyway), but really not all that great. It kept freezing up on me, I kept getting blasted away, and the user interface blows...like there are all these variations of the game to log into, but no key to explain the difference...I uninstalled it and decided it wasn't worth the hard drive space, though it took forever to install it in the first place.