doom 3 wont load
 

i have mandrake 10.1 with kernel 2.6.10 and a nvidia graphics card. when i try running doom3 i get this:

------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/game00.pk4 with checksum 0x7dafc4d4
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/game01.pk4 with checksum 0x16cf3b8a
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x28d208f1
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/pak001.pk4 with checksum 0x40244be0
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/pak002.pk4 with checksum 0xc51ecdcd
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/pak003.pk4 with checksum 0xcd79d028
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/pak004.pk4 with checksum 0x765e4f8b
Loaded pk4 /games/doom3/base/pak005.pk4 with checksum 0x8ffc3621
Current search path:
/root/.doom3/base
/games/doom3/base
/games/doom3/base/pak005.pk4 (63 files)
/games/doom3/base/pak004.pk4 (5137 files)
/games/doom3/base/pak003.pk4 (4676 files)
/games/doom3/base/pak002.pk4 (6120 files)
/games/doom3/base/pak001.pk4 (8972 files)
/games/doom3/base/pak000.pk4 (2698 files)
/games/doom3/base/game01.pk4 (2 files)
/games/doom3/base/game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
--------------------------------------
5151 strings read from strings/english.lang
Couldn't open journal files
execing editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec DoomConfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
5151 strings read from strings/english.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL


i would appreciate any help
thanx
:newbie:

This could be caused by a few things.

Do you have the nvidia drivers for your graphics card installed ? these must be installed and working correctly. Run the command

glxinfo | grep direct

you want to see output like the following

direct rendering: Yes

The drivers can be downloaded from Nvidia's website at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html


If you have the drivers installed then the DOOM 3 FAQ for linux has a couple of suggestions for this type of error.

The FAQ is at http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/

HTH

Mad.

ya i have my drivers installed and working perfectly. and i have already looked at that page u posted. none of it helped. I seem to be having the same sorta of problem as gentoo users here is what i get for everything for what that page told me to try for my prob:

[someone@localhost someone]$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
[someone@localhost someone]$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 doom3
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[someone@localhost someone]$ USE="nptl" emerge glib
bash: emerge: command not found
[someone@localhost someone]$

You're missing libGL.so.1, or its not in /usr/lib. libGL.so.1 is part of the nvidia driver package so it looks like your nvidia drivers arent installed properly.

Mad.