[Chimera-users] problem with opengl glx kubuntu

[Greg Couch]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Fabian Glaser wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed a new version of chimera in kubuntu,and after a while, I
> started to get  the following error when I click chimera:
>
> "Missing opengl windowing protocol (glx)"
>
> I am using kubuntu version:
> Linux 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> nvidia and nvidia-glx are updated and installed.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Fabian

This is probably due to a missing OpenGL package.  Make sure that the 
libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx packages are installed.  There's a 
chance that you will then need to reinstall the nvidia packages.

 	- Greg