"Failed to initialize OpenGL" in Fedora 8, used to work in Fedora 7

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 22:42:58 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 17:38 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I have just installed Fedora 8 to replace my Fedora 7 installation.
> 
> Most things have gone very smoothly including VMWare but when I start
> VMWare Workstation I now get a pop-up error box saying "Failed to
> initialize OpenGL".  I didn't get this when I ran VMWare on Fedora 7.
> 
> I have an NVidia GeForce 7300 GS display and have installed the latest
> NVidia drivers for Linux (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run).
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?

Oh yeah, doesn't Mesa conflict with the nVidia install on libGL issues?
The nVidia installer provides a link to it's own libGL version and Mesa
will overwrite that, from what I observed back when. I don't have Mesa
on my system and glxgears runs at 1300fps on an old old geforce 5200.
Not shabby. My system doesn't complain of missing libGL either, from a
stock nVidia factory driver install. I never allow it to dnload a
pre-compiled driver either, I let it compile it for my system. Nary a
burp in the barrel. Ric
 
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