"Failed to initialize OpenGL" in Fedora 8, used to work in Fedora 7

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:02 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:48:06AM -0800, Alan wrote:
> > > I have just installed Fedora 8 to replace my Fedora 7 installation.
> > >
> > > Most things have gone very smoothly including VMWare but when I start
> > > VMWare Workstation I now get a pop-up error box saying "Failed to
> > > initialize OpenGL".  I didn't get this when I ran VMWare on Fedora 7.
> > >
> > > I have an NVidia GeForce 7300 GS display and have installed the latest
> > > NVidia drivers for Linux (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run).
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
> > 
> > Are you using the same xorg config that you used in FC7?
> 
> No, it was a clean installation from scratch.
> 
> >                                                  You need to make
> > sure the modules block are removed from the xorg config.  If not, the only
> > thing that gets loaded is the opengl modules and nothing else.  (If the
> > modules section is missing, it loads everything.)
> 
> No modules block in xorg.conf.  The nvidia-settings utility shows
> OpenGl as installed.
> 
> > 
> > Also, if you updated Mesa or other opengl libraries since you installed
> > the nVIDIA drivers you will want to reinstall them.  Make sure you install
> > the 32 bit OpenGL libraries as well.  (VMWare might be trying to use the
> > 32bit libraries here so you might want to do it to make sure.)
> > 
> I got the "Failed to initialize OpenGL" immediately after installing
> the NVidia drivers, I've not installed anything since.  The NVidia
> installation installs the 32 bit OpenGL libraries by default (I
> accepted when it offered to).

You did this from level 3? Ric
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