OpenGL woes

[Lonni J Friedman]

What are you trying to run that isn't working?
Which NVIDIA driver version are you using (make sure its the latest released)?
Which kernel version are you using?
Which window manager are you using?
Which GPU are you using ( cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/* ) ?

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks (particulary Lonnie a/o Kurt):
>
> Running an NVidia card.  Recently upgraded the kernel and of course
> had to run through the NVIDIA installer.  However, now (as opposed to
> prior to the upgrade, when OpenGL worked) I seem to have a problem
> with some programs.
>
> Some output:
> init: sdl
> init: enet
> init: video: mode
> Unable to create OpenGL screen: Could not create GL context
>
> A quick tail of /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows:
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "640x480"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1440x900+0+0"
> (II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 3, should be
> 2; fixing.
> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
> (II) APM registered successfully
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1440x900+0+0"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
> (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
> (==) RandR enabled
> (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
> (II) GLX: Initialized MESA-PROXY GL provider for screen 0
>
> Can provide more, but this program ran on this hardware before.
>
> Do I need to run another program to enable OpenGL perhaps?  What did I miss?
>
> TIA,
>
> David A. Bandel
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