Nothing but a black screen

[redidivus]

Hey

I'm running epsxe on Linux, using Pete's plugins, at pretty much base configs. When i run the BIOS, it works. when I try run from cd, all i get is a black screen. trying with FF9 disk 1.
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[sweetkool_ind93]

What's the condition of the disc?
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[Cornellius]

The post is useless without computer specs.
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[redidivus]

Uhm. Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop, 2.13 Ghz, nVidia Geforce 5200 video card.

Running debian etch, kernel 2.6.18.



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[puzzl]

> Hey
>
you're probably using a bad cd drive config. My experience was on windows, so i don't know if its even remotely helpful, but i found that when you first set up epsxe, the cdrom needs to be set up right, or else you will get a situation like the one you have, where the bios will work, images will work, but running from a physical drive will not. I don't know how the cd plugin works on linux, but i would check that out. if worst comes to worst, image your discs and run off of that (it'll be faster that way, as a bonus)
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[sweetkool_ind93]

> if worst comes to worst, image your
> discs and run off of that (it'll be faster that way, as a
> bonus)
>

How's that faster??
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[mFC]

> How's that faster??
>
hard drives have faster access times and can transfer more data at once than optical drives
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[Maxwell Murder]

> I'm running epsxe on Linux, using Pete's plugins, at pretty
> much base configs. When i run the BIOS, it works. when I try
> run from cd, all i get is a black screen. trying with FF9
> disk 1.

I may be wrong, but last I tried epsxe you had to enable an option in one of the menus to get ff9 working right. It may have been fixed since I used it so I'm not really sure.
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[MegaManJuno]

> trying with FF9 disk 1.
>

Is this a PAL version of FF9, by chance? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the PAL version has copy protection of one sort or another that requires a PPF patch in order to play it in ePSXe (if I'm thinking of the right game here).
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