[Fluxus] error "Unable to create direct context rendering for window"

[Artem Baguinski]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, plutek-infinity <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
>>From: Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org>
>>
>>On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:40 +0100, gabor papp wrote:
>>> hi Peter,
>>>
>>> > freeglut (fluxus-0.16): Unable to create direct context rendering for
>>> > window 'fluxus scratchpad 0.16'
>>> you probably don't have direct rendering enabled. you can check it with
>>> glxinfo.
>>
>>alternatively you can try turning some of the fancy GL stuff off by
>>building fluxus with:
>>
>>sudo scons MULTITEXTURE=0 GLSL=0 install
>>
>>if that works, we need to look into how to autodetect these features...
>
> a related question: how does fluxus fare with non-DRI acceleration
> provided by the closed-source binary drivers?
>
> for instance, i can't run DRI with my nvidia card -- does fluxus need
> it to be actual DRI, or will it be happy with the enhancements
> provided in the nvidia driver? it looks like that driver supports the
> OpenGL extensions.

works fine for me with proprietary ATI and nvidia drivers. fluxus
isn't DRI dependent, but it could be requesting "accelerated visual"
for the main window which would cause software OpenGL implementations
to refuse proceeding. consider this a hunch :)

-- 
cheers,
artm

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