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Hi:

I have installed the latest versions of Blender in both Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 9 (taroon). It was working in Windows, but now Blender crashes everytime I click on the render button (always crashed in Linux)…

I have a Radeon 7500, and have the latest drivers installed in XP, and in Linux am using xfree86 4.3, and DRI.

I get the following errors:

In Windows XP:
AppName: blender.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: atioglxx.dll
ModVer: 6.13.10.3036 Offset: 001baa8e

In Linux:
blender: radeon_vtxfmt.c:1061: radeonVtxfmtUnbindContext: Assertion `vb.context == ctx’ failed.
Aborted

I had the program working initially in Windows, but for some reason it won’t work anymore. Tried installing, and reinstalling, tried older version, tried the static version for linux; same errors.

I reinstalled my ATI drivers under Windows XP…

And I came across this article which looked promising:

http://www.vrotvrot.com/support/showitem.php?faq_id=1354

I could only find the .Bfont file though in the program directory.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks

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Have you filed a bug report at blender.org?

3

hmm…

both systems/OS’es?

sounds to me that it is some kind of hardware error…

maybe something bad about the ATI videocard?

did you know that Blender must have 100% fully working OpenGL drivers (or compatible, maybe MESA) for it to be drawned or used correct?

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Ztonzy’s right. In your windowz report the atioglxx.dll is the dll used for open GL by ATI that’s causing the problem.

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5

Did you try using the DispView option instead of DispWin? (in the Display buttons window, F10)

Martin