[Nouveau] glx error with nouveau

[Ilia Mirkin]

Depends on the hardware. You may be interested in looking at
https://people.freedesktop.org/~imirkin/glxinfo/ for specifics.

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Su, Yunde <su.526 at buckeyemail.osu.edu> wrote:
> Hi IIia,
>
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Does the distro released more recently than Dec 2009 support OPENGL 3.3 ?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Yunde
>
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> From: ibmirkin at gmail.com <ibmirkin at gmail.com> on behalf of Ilia Mirkin
> <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 6:27:43 PM
> To: Su, Yunde
> Cc: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Nouveau] glx error with nouveau
>
> Nouveau was merged upstream into the kernel in 2.6.35 or so. The
> 2.6.32-based system you have is a franken-kernel maintained by RedHat.
> You should go to them for support.
>
> I'd recommend trying a distro based on a kernel that was released more
> recently than Dec 2009.
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Su, Yunde <su.526 at buckeyemail.osu.edu>
> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> My laptop has Nouveau installed as the graphic driver. The version is
>> 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64. And when I tried to run a software(CONVERGE
>> STUDIO), I find such errors:
>>
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>> QGLTempContext: No GL capable X visuals available.
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>
>>
>> Could you give some suggestions on how to solve this problem?
>>
>>
>> Thanks and best wishes.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Yunde
>>
>>
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