Video troubles with DooM3 on MSI K8MM-V MB and GeForce FX5200

Lenard Spencer · 06-21-2006, 11:38 AM

Here's one that has me frustrated. I'm trying to run DooM 3 on a MSI K8MM-V motherboard with an Athlon-64 Sempron 2600+ processor, and a GeForce FX5200 graphics card. Problem is, Slack still sees the onboard video on this motherboard, and as a consequence D3 will not run properly, about 1 frame every 2 seconds and garbled audio. What can I do to either disable the onboard graphics chip altogether or at least tell Slack to ignore it? MSI's website is absolutely useless.

Thanks in advance.

nonades · 06-21-2006, 11:40 AM

There should be an option in your BIOS to disable the onboard video.

Lenard Spencer · 06-21-2006, 12:31 PM

There isn't.

liquidtenmilion · 06-21-2006, 01:02 PM

<_<

Sorry, but I have to ask. You DO have the monitor plugged into the Geforce correct? If so, it doesn't matter if the OS sees the other card, as it's going to use the Geforce.

What is the output of "lsmod"? Also, did you install the official nvidia drivers from nvidia.com? If so, what does /etc/X11/xorg.conf say?

Also, the Geforce FX 5200 is a seriously weak card, and I do not even think a little that it can handle doom 3 at any setting.

Lenard Spencer · 06-21-2006, 04:05 PM

I have it solved. the site zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom had some suggestions that worked, both for the video and the sound. The GL issue they listed for Ubuntu also seems to affect Slack 10.2.

MannyNix · 06-21-2006, 05:08 PM

Would you care to post those suggestions that worked? Just curious how you solved it.
Yes, the Geforce FX 5200 is kinda a weak card, but it can handle doom3 at medium settings, about 40fps average. Runs "ok". Oh and same with Quake4

Lenard Spencer · 06-21-2006, 05:16 PM

Here is the full command line i had to use:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 doom3 +set s_driver oss

The first part preloads the GL libraries just so the thing will run, and the last part
(+set s_driver oss) was necessary on my system because the sound was totally hosed otherwise.

MannyNix · 06-21-2006, 05:19 PM

I see, thanks for taking the time, glad you got it running

Lenard Spencer · 06-21-2006, 09:21 PM

Another update: After installing the 2.6.13 kernel off of disc 2, I was able to do away with the preload part for the graphics, but still had to set the sound to OSS.

(Another good side effect, I can now mount my USB flash drive!)