Black screen when I run some games

HI,
I have an up to date release of Archlinux :
$ uname -a
Linux XXXXXX 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 21:55:57 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ pacman -Qs nvidia
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 280.13-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries. (32-bit)
local/libcl 1.0-1
OpenCL library and ICD loader from NVIDIA
local/libvdpau 0.4.1-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 280.13-1
NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/nvidia-utils 280.13-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.
local/opencl-nvidia 280.13-1
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
When I run some games like armagetronad (from community repo) or redeclipse (from AUR), I find myself after a few seconds (time variable) with a black screen and the system stopped responding, that's like it was a standby mode, impossible to return to the desktop or even to switch consoles.
I do not encounter this problem with other games like OpenArena or wormux.
Note that I have two monitors with the same resolution installed on my machine.
Thanks !

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 2560 x 1024, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024
default connected 2560x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
2560x1024 50.0*
Last edited by blueicefield (2011-08-23 12:46:21)

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