Hi Christian, Yes, I should have mentionned that the problem is with MesaGL. When installing ROOT from source, configure takes first the versions in /usr. FedoraCore2 ships with a bad version of MesaGL in /usr May be configure should be changed to start with other possible GL versions? Rene Brun Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > Hi Rene, > > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:33 +0100, Rene Brun wrote: > > We had recently several reports about ROOT crashing when starting the OpenGL > > viewer. We have now identified the problem to be with the GL versions shipped > > with some Linux flavours, including recent versions like FedoraCore2 or SLC3. > > Please check the file in /usr/include/GL/gl.h > > If this file indicates 3.4, 3.5 or even worst 5.2, you should upgrade > > your GL version to the current GL release 6.2. > > You can import this version from http://mesa3d.org > > I guess this is only true if you're using `real' Mesa. > > If you're using the `XFree86' GL libraries, then version 4.0.4 works > fine for me. > > OS: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) > XFree86: 4.3.0 (dfsg 1) > GL: xlibmesa-gl-dev 4.3.0, nvidia-glx-dev 1.0.6629 > > GL kept SIGSEGV on me some time ago, but that was due to an incomplete > build (my mistake). > > Yours, > > -- > ___ | Christian Holm Christensen > |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- > | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 > _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 404 > ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > | |
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