glxgear works fine but gives me the following warning:
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b

Trying to install libgl1-mesa-swx11 would remove the following packages
so I am sceptical about it.
libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx x-window-system-core xorg

Malte J. Wetz schrieb:
> Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 schrieb Markus Lutzer:
>> The OpenGL option is deselected so I don't know why the problem happens.
>>
>> I have installed the (Ubuntu) packages libglu1-mesa, libgl1-mesa-glx,
>> libgl1-mesa-dri. What about libgl1-mesa-swx11, do I need it?
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> ,----
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show libgl1-mesa-swx11
> | [...]
> | Description: A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- runtime
> |  Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to
> |  that of OpenGL.  To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command
> |  syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from
> |  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  However, the author makes no claim that Mesa
> |  is in any way a compatible replacement for OpenGL or associated with
> |  Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> |  .
> |  This library provides a pure software rasteriser; it does not provide
> |  a direct rendering-capable library, or one which uses GLX.  For that,
> |  please see libgl1-mesa-glx.
> |  .
> |  On Linux, this library is also known as libGL or libGL.so.1.
> `----
> 
> I'd say: Yes, you'll need it. Your card cannot support direct rendering, so 
> you need a library that does in software what your card can't do in 
> hardware. But that's only a guess based on the packet description.
> 
> How about running some simple OpenGL apps, like glxgears from mesa-utils 
> package? Does this software work or do you get an error there as well?
> 
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