glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze
Hello, I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did was follow the instructions outlined here: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz And everything was going smoothly up until the compiz --replace command, which outputs: ja...@debian:~$ compiz --replace compiz (core) - Fatal: glXCreateContext failed compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 Launching fallback window manager Which is obviously metacity. I googled a bit but almost all forum posts I found regarded the Fedora distribution. Here's one that didn't: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116895 However, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to uninstall the NVIDIA driver (which I've installed with the NVIDIA installer), since that guy says to do so in the sentence: I uninstall NVIDIA driver have installed Nvidia way - not Debian way. So I'm still stuck. I ran the compiz check script hosted on Forlon's blog (http://forlong.blogage.de/entries/pages/Compiz-Check) and here's the output: ja...@debian:~$ ./compiz-check Gathering information about your system... Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid) Desktop environment: GNOME Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2) Driver in use: nvidia Rendering method: Nvidia Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [FAIL] Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL] Checking for composite extension... [ OK ] Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ] Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP] At least one check had to be skipped: Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size ja...@debian:~$ This is an obvious problem, because after reading a little about compiz-fusion I understood that it's practically based on the openGL extension texture_from_pixmap which I, for some reason, lack. Before going ahead and doing something that might eliminate my ability to launch an X session, I thought I might resort to this list for the most up-to-date information as to what I should do. I am attaching my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log as well as the full output of glxinfo so as to not clutter this message any further with their data. In xorg.conf you will notice that I have added dummy Identifier strings to all the xorg.conf sections that the wiki.debian article I linked to suggests that I add. This was done because my xorg.conf would not be parsed otherwise and I would be stuck with a terminal interface. The startx command complained about xorg.conf sections lacking Identifier strings. Thank you very much for your time and interest, Jason name of display: :0.0 Error: glXCreateContext failed 64 GLX Visuals visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat -- 0x21 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x22 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2b 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2c 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2d 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2e 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2f 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x30 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x3f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x40 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x41 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x42 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x43 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x44 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x45 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x46 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x47 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x48 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x49 24 dc 0 24 0 r .
Re: glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze
Hello, I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did was follow the instructions outlined here: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz And everything was going smoothly up until the compiz --replace command, which outputs: ja...@debian:~$ compiz --replace compiz (core) - Fatal: glXCreateContext failed compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 Launching fallback window manager Which is obviously metacity. I googled a bit but almost all forum posts I found regarded the Fedora distribution. Here's one that didn't: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116895 However, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to uninstall the NVIDIA driver (which I've installed with the NVIDIA installer), since that guy says to do so in the sentence: I uninstall NVIDIA driver have installed Nvidia way - not Debian way. So I'm still stuck. I ran the compiz check script hosted on Forlon's blog (http://forlong.blogage.de/entries/pages/Compiz-Check) and here's the output: ja...@debian:~$ ./compiz-check Gathering information about your system... Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid) Desktop environment: GNOME Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2) Driver in use: nvidia Rendering method: Nvidia Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [FAIL] Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL] Checking for composite extension... [ OK ] Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ] Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP] At least one check had to be skipped: Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size ja...@debian:~$ This is an obvious problem, because after reading a little about compiz-fusion I understood that it's practically based on the openGL extension texture_from_pixmap which I, for some reason, lack. Before going ahead and doing something that might eliminate my ability to launch an X session, I thought I might resort to this list for the most up-to-date information as to what I should do. I am attaching my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log as well as the full output of glxinfo so as to not clutter this message any further with their data. In xorg.conf you will notice that I have added dummy Identifier strings to all the xorg.conf sections that the wiki.debian article I linked to suggests that I add. This was done because my xorg.conf would not be parsed otherwise and I would be stuck with a terminal interface. The startx command complained about xorg.conf sections lacking Identifier strings. Thank you very much for your time and interest, Jason This happened to me many times and I fixed it reinstalling the driver. Seems that you are using official nvidia driver. If it is you have a .run install file. What I usually make is to go to a shell, stop grphic session, uninstall the driver, reinstall the driver and everything go smoothly. So: ctrl+alt+f1// for a shell log in using root go to the place where you have the .run file (for me is /usr/src) cd /usr/src /etc/init.d/gdm stop ./name_of_driver.run --uninstall//uninstall driver ./name_of_driver.run -N//reinstal driver /etc/init.d/gdm start If the installation complain about the gcc compiler version used to compile your kernel abort installation and: export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3 using the correct number version. If you are using Squueze up-to-date I think gcc-4.3 should be fine. Andrea
Re: glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Andrea Neroni hellnote01-deb...@yahoo.itwrote: Hello, I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did was follow the instructions outlined here: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz And everything was going smoothly up until the compiz --replace command, which outputs: ja...@debian:~$ compiz --replace compiz (core) - Fatal: glXCreateContext failed compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 Launching fallback window manager Which is obviously metacity. I googled a bit but almost all forum posts I found regarded the Fedora distribution. Here's one that didn't: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116895http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116895 However, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to uninstall the NVIDIA driver (which I've installed with the NVIDIA installer), since that guy says to do so in the sentence: I uninstall NVIDIA driver have installed Nvidia way - not Debian way. So I'm still stuck. I ran the compiz check script hosted on Forlon's blog (http://forlong.blogage.de/entries/pages/Compiz-Check) and here's the output: ja...@debian:~$ ./compiz-check Gathering information about your system... Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid) Desktop environment: GNOME Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2) Driver in use: nvidia Rendering method: Nvidia Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [FAIL] Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL] Checking for composite extension... [ OK ] Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ] Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP] At least one check had to be skipped: Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size ja...@debian:~$ This is an obvious problem, because after reading a little about compiz-fusion I understood that it's practically based on the openGL extension texture_from_pixmap which I, for some reason, lack. Before going ahead and doing something that might eliminate my ability to launch an X session, I thought I might resort to this list for the most up-to-date information as to what I should do. I am attaching my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log as well as the full output of glxinfo so as to not clutter this message any further with their data. In xorg.conf you will notice that I have added dummy Identifier strings to all the xorg.conf sections that the wiki.debian article I linked to suggests that I add. This was done because my xorg.conf would not be parsed otherwise and I would be stuck with a terminal interface. The startx command complained about xorg.conf sections lacking Identifier strings. Thank you very much for your time and interest, Jason This happened to me many times and I fixed it reinstalling the driver. Seems that you are using official nvidia driver. If it is you have a .run install file. What I usually make is to go to a shell, stop grphic session, uninstall the driver, reinstall the driver and everything go smoothly. So: ctrl+alt+f1// for a shell log in using root go to the place where you have the .run file (for me is /usr/src) cd /usr/src /etc/init.d/gdm stop ./name_of_driver.run --uninstall//uninstall driver ./name_of_driver.run -N//reinstal driver /etc/init.d/gdm start If the installation complain about the gcc compiler version used to compile your kernel abort installation and: export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3 using the correct number version. If you are using Squueze up-to-date I think gcc-4.3 should be fine. Andrea And, it worked! I feel stupid! Yay! Thanks Andrea.
