Red Hat (RHEL5.2): OpenGl, SDL app Error: BadFont, GLX, X_GLXUseXFont

[EdOfTheMountai1]

Any thoughts on this error are much appreciated as I am Linux / OpenGl newbie.

On my physical RHEL 5.2 machine, a lot of OpenGl related problems were solved after updating to the latest Nvidia drivers. However, I could be missing some lib dependency on my guest VM that I forgot I had installed on the physical machine. I am hoping there is a solution as I can not update VM video drivers as far as I know.

Same problem on both Fusion 2.0.4 and Workstation 6.5.2 hosts on two different host machines.

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration,

-Ed

[wila]

Hi,

OpenGL hardware acceleration is not supported in Linux guests.

The only OpenGL that works in linux guests is software rendering.

Not sure what you are trying to do, is this a physical to virtual conversion?

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Wil

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

Your application must support software OpenGL... CHeck out Mesa it may do what you need.

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[EdOfTheMountai1]

I really do not need hardware OpenGl support. My application is not that demanding and software rendering is fine. I am doing som text printing on the screen for a heads-up-display. I think this is what it is complaining about. I get the same error on a fresh VM install in Parallels and it does have OpenGl hardware support. Perhaps this is better to ask the question on an OpenGl support. I may try commenting out the drawing text code and see if it quits complaining.

Thank you for your time!

-Ed

PS. And thanks to Edward as well, I will check out Mesa.