[Paraview] Newbie Installing ParaView on a 64 bit gentoo machine --latest error

Shead, Timothy tshead at sandia.gov
Thu Mar 9 15:45:24 EST 2006


> Now I get:
> 
> 	bash-3.00$paraview
> 	Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> 	Aborted
> 	bash-3.00$
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this one? 
> 
> 
> P.S.
> I have emerged X11 with the opengl USE flag set, which should 
> mean the openGL features are enabled.

Your /etc/X11R6/xorg.conf probably still needs to be configured for your
hardware, emerge doesn't try to do it for you.

Use glxinfo and glxgears for testing until your xorg.conf is complete -
if they won't run, ParaView won't either.

Cheers,
Tim



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