[ut2004] Cant find libGL

Luke Bigum catach at tpg.com.au
Sat Jul 24 20:46:19 EDT 2004


On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:03, Rick B wrote:
>     All I can think is that it might be this, in the NVIDIA/Readme file,
> especially the part about ldconfig:
>
> A: If X starts, but OpenGL causes problems, you most likely have a
>    problem with other libraries in the way, or there are stale symlinks.
>    See Appendix C for details.  Sometimes, all it takes is to rerun
>    'ldconfig'.
>
>    You should also check that the correct extensions are present;
>    'xdpyinfo' should show the "GLX", "NV-GLX" and "NVIDIA-GLX" extensions
>    present.  If these three extensions are not present, then there
>    is most likely a problem with the glx module getting loaded or it
>    is unable to implicitly load GLcore.  Check your X config file and
>    make sure that you are loading glx (see "Editing Your X config File"
>    above). If your X config file is correct, then check the X log file
>    for warnings/errors pertaining to GLX.  Also check that all of the
>    necessary symlinks are in place (refer to Appendix C).

Others believe it to be a Gentoo problem. Preloading /usr/lib/libGL.so before 
running ut2004 is a temporary fix: 'LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so" ut2004'.

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