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[IDV #HHF-710201]: libGL error on startup

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  • Subject: [IDV #HHF-710201]: libGL error on startup
  • Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:10:05 -0600
Hi Brian,

> I recently installed IDV 2.2 on a laptop running Fedora Core 6. The initial 
> installation went fine, and the program seemed to work perfectly. Then, I 
> went on to install some other software, including Grace and ncplot. To help 
> with these installations, I copied some libraries into the /usr/X11R6 
> directory where these programs expect them. Now, when I try to start IDV it 
> crashes with the following message:
> 
> libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
> 
> Does this make sense in light of the additions I made to the libraries, and 
> is there a way to work around this problem? Thanks for your help.
> 


This reminds me of the old story of the guy that goes into a doctor's office and
says "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this" and the doctor says "dont do 
that" :-)

I suspect it was the "I copied some libraries" step above. You could look
at this page:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting

It describes a possible fix for this. Search for "failed to open DRM" on the 
page.

-Jeff


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HHF-710201
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed