Turns out that fgfs and freeglut 2.4 do cause problems. There is a
thread on the flightgear dev list about this issue.

http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03577.html

thx andy

> Hi
>
> I am trying to install fgfs (0.9.10) on my FC5, 2.6.16-1.2096 kernel
> with NVIDIA drivers installed. And I am getting the errors listed below 
> (start fgfs). I used the rpms posted at ftp://obgyn.edu.pl/fgfs/Fedora.
> Thinking that this might be related to my freeglut version, I tried
> installing freeglut 2.2 via rpm. Unfortunately installing freeglut from
> the rpm failed because of a missing dependency (libGL.so). Which appears
> to be correctly installed. 
> How can I installed fgfs on FC5 ? Am I missing an installation step ?
>
> thx andy
>
> ------------------------ start fgfs
> --------------------------------------------------------
> # fgfs
> freeglut (fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for window
> 'FlightGear'
> This may hurt performance.
> X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or
> internal Xlib length error)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  145 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  29 ()
>   Serial number of failed request:  871
>   Current serial number in output stream:  871
> freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor
>
>
> --------------------------  rpm -i freeglut
> ---------------------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# rpm -i freeglut-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libGL.so.1(LIBGL) is needed by freeglut-2.2.0-1.i386
>
> ------------------------- installed libs ---------------------------------
> /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1.3.060402
> /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.2
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
> /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1.0.8756
> /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1
> /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1
> /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1.0.8756
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so
> /usr/lib64/nvidia-graphics-1.0-8756/libGL.so.1.0.8756
> /usr/lib64/nvidia-graphics-1.0-8756/libGL.so.1
> /usr/lib64/nvidia-graphics-1.0-8756/libGLcore.so.1.0.8756
> /usr/lib64/nvidia-graphics-1.0-8756/libGLcore.so.1
> /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.060402
> /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
>
>
>
>
>
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