Doom3 demo exits with segmentation fault; complains about vertex array in virtual mem

mr.v. · 02-01-2007, 01:02 AM

I'm trying to run the Doom3 demo on Fedora Core 6 x86_64. I've got a NVidia 7900GS 256MB card. I installed the nvidia driver from the Livna repository (version 1.0-9746). In my xorg.conf I changed driver to "nvidia" and I get the nvidia splash screen on startup. I can use nvidia-settings program to adjust settings. I have Load "glx" as well as I removed Load "dri" and "GLcore".

Now when I type doom3-demo in a xterm I start to see text scroll by, then the monitor turns all black as if it's going to go to full screen mode. I can hear the fan on my card start to whir-up and then it crashes back to the desktop with the following error:

Code:

WARNING: vertex array range in virtual memory (SLOW)
signal caught: Segmentation fault
si_code 1
Trying to exit gracefully..
Shutting down sound hardware

Here's the beginning output from glxinfo:

Code:

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
...
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
...
GLX version: 1.3
...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7900 GS/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.0 NVIDIA 97.46

the "..." is actuall a bunch of extensions that start with GLX_EXT/GLX_ARB etc etc etc. I just didn't want to spam my posting with it =)

Thanks for any input you all may have! I'd like to see that it all works!
Also any idea what the deal with the vertex array in virtual memory (SLOW) is about? I've got a 256MB card and 1024MB of RAM. Is that not enough?

Thanks again!

mr.v. · 02-01-2007, 01:19 AM

Ahhh search and ye shall receive...
I found this forum post over at fedoraforum.org
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...virtual+memory

"have you installed the package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-32bit from livna too?"
I tried it and it worked. Someone also mentions that you must "Make sure you install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-32bit and then remove mesa-libGL-6.4.2-6.i386"
but it worked without having to do that (although I'm not sure I have it installed and I really don't feel like yumming to find out...

Anyways, just FYI...you apparently also need 32-bit libs for 32-bit executables to work...fancy that =)