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SL 1.16.0.6 doesn't start on Mint 3.0
petantik Kikuchiyo
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Join date: 9 Sep 2006
Posts: 1
06-02-2007 18:05
Hi, I'm using Linux Mint 3.0 (Based off of Ubuntu Feisty) and the client crashes on start up with a dialog box "Window Creation Error". I definitely have the official Nvidia drivers installed, and the modules are loaded correctly

from the logs

...

54Z INFO: main: Initializing window...
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: Starting GTK Initialization.
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: GTK Initialized.
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Compiled against GTK version 2.4.14
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Running against GTK version 2.10.11
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: createContext, fullscreen=0 size=800x600
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: createContext: Compiled against SDL 1.2.5
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: createContext: Running against SDL 1.2.11
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-06-03T01:01:54Z INFO: OSMessageBoxSDL: Creating a dialog because we're in windowed mode and GTK is happy.
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z INFO: Skipping quitCursors: mWindow already gone.
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z WARNING: createWindow: LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z WARNING: LLViewerWindow: Unable to create window, be sure screen is set at 32-bit color and your graphics driver is configured correctly. See README-linux.txt for further information.
2007-06-03T01:01:56Z INFO: remove_marker_file()

Any ideas whats up?

*EDIT* Yeah! it wasn't in 32 bit colour mode, after changing it in xorg.conf it started working :)
Drake Bacon
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Join date: 13 Jul 2005
Posts: 443
06-03-2007 05:43
SL on an old Atari 520 ST?!? What the...

(Yes, I read that as MiNT)
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Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
06-03-2007 12:30
where do these distros come from ?

im running X which is based off of Y which is biult of Z which was based off of A8 which was based off of the free port of debian

*pulls hair out*