On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Richard Jones wrote:
> I've installed 9.1 from the ISOs that I downloaded and burnt to CD. The
> install went flawlessly, but once I rebooted I found that no KDE
> application would work. I've had to "startx xdm" manually to even get
> X11 to start up. Any KDE app I try to run once X11 is going just quits
> out as soon as it tries to open a window. Other apps (eg. Evolution,
> Mozilla, various terminals, the Mandrake RPM tools, ...) work fine - it
> appears to just be the KDE apps. For example, I run konsole, and get the
> following terminal output. Note, I nuked my ~/.kde dir, and ran konsole
> twice. The first has a whole bunch of KDE environment initialisation
> (and then dies). The second just has this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ konsole
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
>
> I get a flash of some window, and then the app quits. I used strace to
> try to figure what might be going on, but it just dies with a SIGSEGV
> after doing some ioctl calls, then calls the KDE crash handler (which
> doesn't actually work, like all the other KDE stuff).
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going wrong???
>
>
> Richard
It looks as if KDE expects the glx extension to be present.
Take a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and look for a line in the "Module"
section
Load "glx"
If it is not present add it.
If it is present take a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see if it is failing
for some reason.
derek
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