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20050831: IDV - null GraphicsConfiguration

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  • Subject: 20050831: IDV - null GraphicsConfiguration
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:28:54 -0600
>From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden>
>Organization: Lyndon State
>Keywords: 200508311611.j7VGBSjo004773 IDV GLX

Hi Mark-

>> Could you please send info on which version of Linux you are using
>> and the X server version and Mesa version on that machine?
>
>Linux: Slackware Linux 10.0 (kernel 2.6.7)
>X:  xorg 6.7.0
>Mesa (from glxinfo):
>OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.4 Mesa 5.0.2)

Okay.  On our systems, the version of Mesa is 6.2.1, which is probably
why we never saw this problem here in our testing.

>> In the mean time, if you have 1.2b2 still installed, you can either
>> modify the runIDV script to point to the jre/bin/java in that directory,
>> or just replace the jre in the 1.2 directory with the one in the
>> 1.2b2 directory. (I'd try the former first to make sure there are
>> no problems).
>
>Replacing the jre with the one in beta 2 makes things work for now.  Thanks 
>Don!

We will debate whether to move back down to Java 3D 1.3.1 and notify
idvusers if we make a change.  Thanks for the info.

Don
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