running blender

hfawzy · August 27, 2002, 5:48am

hi,
i’ve downloaded the last blender on my Mandrake linux and when i run blender, it gives me this error:
GLUT: Fatal Error in blender: visual with necessary capabilities not found.
And sometimes it runs blender but with a very bad quality, all the screen is pink…
What should i do?
Thank you

kattkieru · August 27, 2002, 6:47am

Sounds like a driver error with your 3D card, or an incompatibility. Have you always been running older versions of Blender on your Mandrake machine? Have you recently upgraded it or changed something at a low level?

hfawzy · August 27, 2002, 11:11am

No, this is the first time i try to install Blender…
Maybe should i upgrade MESA (OpenGL compatible 3D graphics library)?
Any comments will be very welcome,
Hfawzy

hermy · August 27, 2002, 12:39pm

maybe you should try to grab a static version of blender and see if it works out. i’m sure there will be a lnk on the elysiun site somewhere.

i have:

blender-creator-2.22-linux-glibc2.1.2-i386-static.tar.gz
blender-creator-2.23-linux-glibc2.1.2-i386-static.tar.gz

available if you’re interested.

hfawzy · August 27, 2002, 11:33pm

THANK YOU very much hermy, it worked!!!

hermy · August 28, 2002, 1:19am

i must add that this is a quick workaround. i would advise you to get that mesa and opengl problem solved, if you want to be able to fully use your Gfxcard capabilities(if any).