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?
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?
Try contacting NVidia and/or VMWare?
-- Rex
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?
Are you using the same xorg config that you used in FC7? You need to make sure the modules block are removed from the xorg config. If not, the only thing that gets loaded is the opengl modules and nothing else. (If the modules section is missing, it loads everything.)
Also, if you updated Mesa or other opengl libraries since you installed the nVIDIA drivers you will want to reinstall them. Make sure you install the 32 bit OpenGL libraries as well. (VMWare might be trying to use the 32bit libraries here so you might want to do it to make sure.)
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:48:06AM -0800, Alan 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?
Are you using the same xorg config that you used in FC7?
No, it was a clean installation from scratch.
You need to make
sure the modules block are removed from the xorg config. If not, the only thing that gets loaded is the opengl modules and nothing else. (If the modules section is missing, it loads everything.)
No modules block in xorg.conf. The nvidia-settings utility shows OpenGl as installed.
Also, if you updated Mesa or other opengl libraries since you installed the nVIDIA drivers you will want to reinstall them. Make sure you install the 32 bit OpenGL libraries as well. (VMWare might be trying to use the 32bit libraries here so you might want to do it to make sure.)
I got the "Failed to initialize OpenGL" immediately after installing the NVidia drivers, I've not installed anything since. The NVidia installation installs the 32 bit OpenGL libraries by default (I accepted when it offered to).
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:02 +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:48:06AM -0800, Alan 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?
Are you using the same xorg config that you used in FC7?
No, it was a clean installation from scratch.
You need to make
sure the modules block are removed from the xorg config. If not, the only thing that gets loaded is the opengl modules and nothing else. (If the modules section is missing, it loads everything.)
No modules block in xorg.conf. The nvidia-settings utility shows OpenGl as installed.
Also, if you updated Mesa or other opengl libraries since you installed the nVIDIA drivers you will want to reinstall them. Make sure you install the 32 bit OpenGL libraries as well. (VMWare might be trying to use the 32bit libraries here so you might want to do it to make sure.)
I got the "Failed to initialize OpenGL" immediately after installing the NVidia drivers, I've not installed anything since. The NVidia installation installs the 32 bit OpenGL libraries by default (I accepted when it offered to).
You did this from level 3? Ric
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
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:33:34PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:02 +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:48:06AM -0800, Alan 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?
Are you using the same xorg config that you used in FC7?
No, it was a clean installation from scratch.
You need to make
sure the modules block are removed from the xorg config. If not, the only thing that gets loaded is the opengl modules and nothing else. (If the modules section is missing, it loads everything.)
No modules block in xorg.conf. The nvidia-settings utility shows OpenGl as installed.
Also, if you updated Mesa or other opengl libraries since you installed the nVIDIA drivers you will want to reinstall them. Make sure you install the 32 bit OpenGL libraries as well. (VMWare might be trying to use the 32bit libraries here so you might want to do it to make sure.)
I got the "Failed to initialize OpenGL" immediately after installing the NVidia drivers, I've not installed anything since. The NVidia installation installs the 32 bit OpenGL libraries by default (I accepted when it offered to).
You did this from level 3? Ric
Yes, I run at level 3 all the time, I just run X by running startx, I don't use gdm at all.