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. -- Chris Green
