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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>After a recent major upgrade using the atrpms package repository,
my openGL no longer works in mythgallery Originally, I got “Xlib:
extension "XFree86-DRI" missing”. I found this article:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=17239">http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=17239</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The quick summary of that article is: XFree86 is upgraded,
which sucks in XFree86-Mesa-libGL. This conflicts with the openGL libs
from nvidia. I did the:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>fix mentioned in that article, which made the above error go
away, to be replaced with a new error, something like “openGL not found”.
I checked, and there were dead symbolic links in /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib
for libGL.so and libGLcore.so. I tried re-pointing them to the files
installed by atrpms, and the error went away, but now I get a blank screen (no
other errors). I am next going to try and just delete (well, rename for
safety) those symbolic links.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Does anyone have any advice for things I can try? I’m
about to give up, and just use mythgallery without openGL support. One
thing that would be nice to know is: what is the layout of openGL in a working
system? </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks for any help,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>william</span></font></p>
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