Curtis L. Olson writes:
>
>As I recall this problem happens due to a bad Mesa build.  Most opengl
>applications don't check for a valid opengl context before running
>(unfortunately.)  

< snip >

>Note that the check happens inside plib so the FlightGear project
>can't turn it off if we wanted to (which I don't.)  An enterprising
>person could probably go hack their copy of plib to remove the check
>and then FlightGear (and other plib based apps) would probably start
>work.

Or more likely just go *** KABOOM *** with no error message !!

This is why we have the "Valid OpenGL Context" check and the mesage.

BTW
What color is the Linux screen when this happens ??

Cheers 

Norman


_______________________________________________
Flightgear-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users

Reply via email to