FYI, after reading the recent thread "SuSE Update cause FGFS problem," I tried re-installing the NVIDIA driver, and now all is okay again.
- JM John Matro wrote: >I'm running CentOS 4.4 (a Red Hat derivative). I downloaded the >following: > > FlightGear-0.9.10-0.FC.i386.rpm > openal-20050209-0.FC2.i386.rpm > openal-devel-20050209-0.FC2.i386.rpm > plib-devel-1.8.4-0.i386.rpm > SimGear-devel-0.3.10-0.FC.i386.rpm > >from the following website: > > ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/fgfs/Fedora/ > >and installed the above. FlightGear ran fine. > >Then tonight I did a "routine" CentOS update and updated the following: > > libgsf-1.10.1-2.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpm > firefox-1.5.0.9-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm > thunderbird-1.5.0.9-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm > >Now when I launch FlightGear, it gets to the "generating sky elements" >message on the splash screen and then aborts with the following >messages: > > X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or > internal Xlib length error) > Major opcode of failed request: 144 (GLX) > Minor opcode of failed request: 29 () > Serial number of failed request: 818 > Current serial number in output stream: 818 > >Any ideas or suggestions? > >Thanks. > >- JM > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
