Unfortunately because of linux politics, many distributions like fedora don't make it easy to install the hardware opengl drivers because they are in binary form(ubuntu/linux mint have made this extremely simple).
here is a tutorial on installing them: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/fedora-17-nvidia-guide/ ----- Deke Kincaid Creative Specialist The Foundry Mobile: (310) 883 4313 Tel: (310) 399 4555 - Fax: (310) 450 4516 The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. Registered in England and Wales No: 4642027 On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]>wrote: > This may seem brutally obvious, but have you installed any GPU drivers? > > -Nathan > > > *From:* Neil Scholes <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 20, 2013 6:19 AM > *To:* Nuke user discussion <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke 7.0v2 not starting on Fedora 18 > installed on macPro 3.1 > > Hi that's interesting I'm running mint 13 Maya currently and I can confirm > that nuke runs on it perfectly - the latest updates give you 4 usable > nvidia drivers > > > I tried fedora and got nowhere _ as a Linux beginner like I am - I would > highly recommend mint or ubuntuu > > > Sent from my HTC > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Nico Dufort" <[email protected]> > To: "Nuke user discussion" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nuke-users] Nuke 7.0v2 not starting on Fedora 18 installed on > macPro 3.1 > Date: Sun, Jan 20, 2013 4:22 AM > > > libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast > > > That might be related to mesa. I don't know much about all this, but do > you have mesa installed? I do remember similar issues the first time I > installed Nuke on Mint a long time ago, and that came from a bad graphics > driver--Mint offers three and the default one did not work for Nuke. > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:02 PM, adam jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi there >> >> I am trying to set up a nuke 7.0v2 install on fedora 18 (not Live CD) >> mainly just a learning experience with linux. >> >> I have fedora 18 installed on a macbook pro 3.1 >> >> plroblem being is when I goto start up nuke I get the splash screen then >> about 5 secs later just fades away. >> >> the error message I get in the terminal is : >> >> libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details. >> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast >> libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details. >> X Error: GLXBadContext 170 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 6 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0x2800066 >> X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0xfe >> X Error: GLXBadContext 170 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 6 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0x280006c >> X Error: GLXBadContext 170 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0x2800066 >> X Error: GLXBadContext 170 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 6 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0x2800071 >> X Error: GLXBadContext 170 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0x2800066 >> X Error: GLXBadContext 170 >> Extension: 153 (Uknown extension) >> Minor opcode: 6 (Unknown request) >> Resource id: 0x2800082 >> [xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue >> [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has >> not been called >> [xcb] Aborting, sorry about that. >> Nuke7.0: xcb_io.c:273: poll_for_event: Assertion >> `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed. >> >> >> anyone have some suggestions at to what I need to do? >> >> -adam >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> > > > > -- > "Attention, attention. Here and now, boys," the mynah repeated. "Here and > now, boys." > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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