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/



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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
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