Thanks. I now suspect the local support staff messed up when my system
was updated from RHEL4 to RHEL5 earlier this year.
-Bob
Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Bob Garwood wrote:
>
>> I've not used gaia for quite some time. My OS has gone from RedHat
>> Enterprise Linux 4 to 5 and also from 32 bit to 64 bit so I
>> downloaded the most recent release plus patches. When I try and run
>> gaia I get:
>>
>> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>> ERROR: In
>> /export/data/star/starlink-nanahope/thirdparty/kitware/vtk/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
>>
>> line 606
>> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x1c0dcc60): GLX not found. Aborting.
>>
>> From what I've been able to glean in about 15 minutes of google
>> attempts is that this probably means I need to use a rebuilt video
>> driver with this turned on. Further suggestions would be great.
>> Thanks.
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> that's about right. If you want the best 3D performance then you need
> a native driver for NVIDIA cards. I believe ATI cards are already
> supported in the distributed drivers, other cards I have no idea about
> I'm afraid.
>
> The fallback when no native GLX is available for your graphics card is
> to install the Mesa package driver. That does software rendering.
>
> You can test if GLX is working by running the "glxgears" command (a
> score of a few thousand FPS seems to be sufficient).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>
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