DOOM3 and Fedora

[Sean Bruno]

Just got it installed today and must say that it is fantastic.  I am
running it with a Nvidia TI 4200, so I can at least play it.


On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:07 -0500, Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Klaasjan Brand
> Sent: Thu 12/23/2004 5:15 AM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: DOOM3 and Fedora
>  
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 15:02 -0500, Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone have doom3 working under Fedora3?
> > Mine fails to start.  Any pointers?
> 
> > GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect
> 
> Looks like there's no accelerated 3d available on your system (or it's
> not configured correctly). Also, to play Doom 3 on Fedora you need an
> nvidia card with the nvidia binary drivers, at least until ATI or the
> DRI pe"ople make some progress with their drivers. Any other hardware is
> certainly not powerful enough to run the game.
> 
> =====================================================>
> ====ELW>
> Indeed, I have NVIDIA and those binary drivers as well.
> The Doom 3 Demo played perfect on FC3 kernels prior to 
> "2.6.9-1.681_FC3"  
> 
> So here is what I did to resolve the problem:
> 
> --Move to "2.6.9-1.715_FC3" from testing repository
> --Re-run the NVIDIA install script with the "--add-this-kernel" option.
> --Reboot
> 
> And away we go!!! Doom3 is awesome!!
> I just could not let my relatives running Windows
> out do my Linux Box during the holidays.
> 
> One caveat: There is indeed a gotcha.
> -- known issue that causes the laptop to lockup when logging
> out from the KDE or GNOME desktop. I believe this has
> already been reported for "2.6.9-1.715_FC3" in previous threads.
> I hope this is fixed in upstream kernels for FC3?
> 
> Merry Christmas,
> Ernesto
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> 
> Klaasjan
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