Bug#550549: gnome-games: Running sol fails with Error: glXCreateContext failed

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 05:42:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
   > Le dimanche 11 octobre 2009 à 08:29 +0530, Sridhar M.A. a écrit : 
   > > When I tried to run the Aislerot Solitaire from the menu, nothing came
   > > up; no error message(s). Tried to run it from the terminal and this is
   > > what I get :
   > > 
   > > $ sol
   > > Error: glXCreateContext failed
   > > 
   > > (sol-clutter:6504): ClutterGLX-CRITICAL **: Unable to create suitable GL
   > > context.
   > > Failed to initialise clutter: Unable to realize the default stage
   > 
   > Do other OpenGL games, like crack-attack, work?
   > Do other Clutter games, like gnometris, work?
   > 
   > What is the output of 'glxinfo' on your system?
   > 
That made me check the libglx.so on my system. I am extremely sorry for
having filed this issue as a grave bug. The libglx.so from nvidia binary
driver was replaced by xserver upgrade. That was causing this problem.
Replacing that solved this for me. Once again, apologies for the noise.

Regards,

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