HELP !!!!! cant play games on facebook or pogo

You can try to change video resolution...
- first try to dynamically change screen resolution plese the press CTR + ALT + "+" and/or CTRL + ALT + "-"
- Try to restart the graphic layer press CTR + ALT + BACKSPACE

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simple questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Hope this helps

i tried this but no solution

What is the hardware specifications of your computer?

pentium 4
2.4 ghz
memory 502.1 mib (49% used)

Please try to run the game with this terminal command:

/usr/games/openarena --quiet -opengl

Your hardware spec is good enough to run openarena. So there shouldnt be a problem there.

Yeah I tried it and same problem 'input signal out of range' :(

Can you play other games?
If not are you running into the same problems you are running into trying to run this game?
How did you install the game through synaptic or a download for the openarena website?

i can run other games but just the easy ones like cards and a 3d pool game,
i downloaded through synaptic
i also cant run tremulous

Tremulous needs a good graphics card so thats not surprising.
Id say it could be just your hardware isnt good enough.

how do i get better hardware? or do i need a better graphics card. my card is good enough i think

No, you don't need a new graphics card, even Tremulous should be able to run with much older graphics cards.
In a terminal, run:
For Open Arena, run this command in a terminal (Applications->Accessoires->Terminal):
gedit ~/.openarena/baseoa/q3config.cfg
Then find these lines:
seta r_customheight "1024"
seta r_customwidth "1600"
seta r_mode "3"
(maybe with different resolution settings)

Edit them to a smaller resolution, like 1024x768, or even 800x600:
seta r_customheight "600"
seta r_customwidth "800"
seta r_mode "-1"

Note: the "r_mode" hsould be set to -1.

If all that didn't help, you should restrict the sync range for your monitor. Use this command:
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then find this string:
Section "Monitor"

In that section, check for entries named "HorizSync" and "VertRefresh". Copy these two lines, and place a '#' at the beginning. This way we can keep the original settings as backup.
Then add two lines with a smaller number range. For example these settings should be pretty failsafe:
 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
 VertRefresh 60.0 - 62.0

Save and exit. Log out and log in again.

Concerning Tremulous, what exactly happens when you try to start it?

Here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/65080 you mentioned your screen runs at 52Hz. In that case you should try this line instead of the one above as a fallback:
     VertRefresh 52

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!

this has been on my tits for the last few weeks.
Cant thank you enough Cruncer.

it worked for open aren but when i try to exit open arena it freezes on the exit screen.
with tremulous the screen goes to input signal out of range.
I thought all was working but exit screen on open arena freezes
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I'm glad it (partially) helped. Did you only change the resolution in the Open Arena config file, or did you also change the refresh rates in the xorg.conf?

For the Open Arena freeze, maybe you fins answers in their FAQ: http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ
Or you can ask on their dedicated forum: http://openarena.ws/board/

For tremulous: Please start tremulous from a terminal, and then post the text output here, there might be useful information in there. One command you can try is "tremulous +set r_mode 4"
They also have a forum where you can ask for help: http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?board=4.0

tremlous worked when i tried it on the terminal should i uninstall it an reinstall?

Did you try it with the '+set r_mode 4', or simply by running 'tremulous'?
There is no need to reinstall. If the answer to the first question is "Yes, with these parameters", then you can just modify the menu entry for tremulous. There should be an entry for "MainMenu" somewhere in the Preferences or Administration menu (not sure where, since I don't use Gnome). Find the entry for tremulous, goto Properties, and modify the 'Command' line to include the parameters above.

I opened it with '+set r_mode 4' i dont know how to do that i mean modify the whaty waht? im not sure what u mean. Im not too good at these things

In the main menu, click on (Applications->)System->Preferences->MainMenu.
In the window that opens, find the entry for Tremulous (probably under "Games").
Click on the Entry, click the button "Properties".
Click into the line shown after "Command:", move to the end of the line with your cursor keys or by pressing the "End" key, type a space, and add this text to the line (which currently should end with ..../tremulous):
+set r_mode 4
Then press "Close". Also close the other window.
Now try to start Tremuolous from the Menu.

Yup now it's all working, thanks a lot for helping me, really appreciate it.