[Just black screen on Debian GNU/Linux]

Works now! Not sure what changed, but trying it a second time in windowed mode seemed to work. It seems that windowed mode is necessary for tiling window managers, or at least ratpoison.

[Just black screen on Debian GNU/Linux]

Edit: solved, I got it working. Not sure how to mark the thread as solved.

Hello! I just installed the game through the Debian Sid repositories, which say it's version 0.21-2. When I try running 0ad or pyrogenesis, it prints some normal looking output:

Cache: 400 (total: 2614) MiB
TIMER| InitVfs: 9.26584 ms
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 9.92814 ms
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for 4294967295, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for 4294967295, skipping unlock
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft
TIMER| shutdown ConfigDB: 2.606 us
TIMER| resource modules: 16.5035 ms
TIMER TOTALS (9 clients)
-----------------------------------------------------
  tc_png_decode: 0 c (0x)
  tc_pool_alloc: 102.093 kc (2x)
  tc_dds_transform: 0 c (0x)
  tc_transform: 0 c (0x)
  tc_plain_transform: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderValidation: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderGLSLLink: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderGLSLCompile: 0 c (0x)
  xml_validation: 0 c (0x)
-----------------------------------------------------
TIMER| shutdown misc: 1.01874 ms
Cache: 400 (total: 2614) MiB
TIMER| InitVfs: 822.061 ms
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 9.45509 ms
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft

and in top I see pyrogenesis taking up about 5% of the CPU. The screen flickers for a moment, but nothing is displayed. If I switch to an empty workspace I see a black screen instead of my usual background. I'm using ratpoison as my window manager, so that's probably why it's not popping up in the right place, but it doesn't explain why I just get a black screen.

My CPU is a dual core running at 1.3 ghz, and my graphics chip is a Radeon HD 6290 with 384 MB of vram according to radeontop. My resolution is set to 1366x768. I'm using the xserver-xorg-video-radeon drivers.

Edit: I should also mention that firmware-linux-nonfree, libgl1-mesa-dri, xserver-xorg-video-ati, are installed, and that other games seem to be working ok. Pioneer runs fine, and it has a fair amount of fancy 3d stuff. So my graphics card/drivers seem to be in working order.

Another edit: Opening in windowed mode gets me a little bit further. Music now plays, and there's a bit more ouput in the terminal:

TIMER| RunHardwareDetection: 134.349 ms
TIMER| write_sys_info: 18.6395 ms
TIMER| InitRenderer: 19.8503 ms
TIMER| ps_console: 21.3744 ms
TIMER| ps_lang_hotkeys: 9.81391 ms
TIMER| common/modern/setup.xml: 956.032 us
TIMER| common/modern/styles.xml: 1.00051 ms
TIMER| common/modern/sprites.xml: 16.3769 ms
TIMER| common/setup.xml: 3.56307 ms
TIMER| common/sprites.xml: 5.25649 ms
TIMER| common/styles.xml: 984.99 us
TIMER| common/init.xml: 6.28276 ms
TIMER| pregame/backgrounds/: 1.49133 ms
TIMER| pregame/sprites.xml: 2.2964 ms
TIMER| pregame/styles.xml: 943.769 us
TIMER| pregame/mainmenu.xml: 54.2995 ms
TIMER| common/global.xml: 3.87147 ms

Any thoughts? And thanks in advance!