[Chimera-users] OpenGL error in GfxInfo::initialize 'out of memory'

[Greg Couch]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Dmitry Osolodkin wrote:

> I have a very small but annoying problem.
> I had two versions of libGL.so.1, so I have renamed the version in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/. Now I can run Chimera, but it works rather slow and
> says OpenGL error in GfxInfo::initialize 'out of memory'. I use Mandriva
> Linux 2006 and FireGL drivers by ATI.
> Could anone help me?

If you had to rename one of the versions of libGL.so.1, then you probably 
had a problem installing the ATI drivers or you forgot to reinstall the
ATI/NVidia driver when you upgraded your kernel and/or X11.  So the first
thing to do is to reinstall the ATI driver.

If the ATI drivers are properly installed (using the latest 8.29.6 drivers),
you will see (with different dates):

     % cd /usr/lib; ls -l libGL.so*
     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 27 Oct  5 15:44 libGL.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 27 Oct  5 15:44 libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
     % cd /usr/X11R6/lib; ls -l libGL.so*
     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     27 Oct  5 15:44 libGL.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     27 Oct  5 15:44 libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
     -rw-r--r--  1 root root 783353 Oct  5 15:44 libGL.so.1.2

After you reinstall the ATI driver, be sure to reboot.  Then run

 	glxinfo | grep "^OpenGL renderer"

to confirm that the ATI driver instead of the Mesa driver is being used.

If you need further assistance, please use chimera's Help / Report A Bug
dialog and I'll work with you to figure things out.

 	Greg Couch
 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab