[Kde-kiosk] OpenGL errors

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Tue Oct 7 16:09:26 CEST 2003


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I have heard of this problem before indeed:
> 2) OpenGL is linked into KDE from RedHat, and unfortunately for us, that
> is a licensed product on our terminals.  Or I should say it *was* when
> the terminals came out.  Our terminals detect OpenGL, and then attempt
> to get a license which does not exist.  The work around is to build KDE
> by hand with OpenGL turned off, which is what I did and it worked fine.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 14:47, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> I think that what we are seeing is actually the way that X is now using
> OpenGL rather than a KDE issue.
>
> On 10/6/2003 2:26 PM, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> > I am finally getting a chance to to upgrade from Red Hat 7.2 to 9 (and
> > from KDE 2.2.2 to KDE 3.1-10 Red Hat.  Unfortunately, I am getting a lot
> > of OpenGL-related errors on login.  The error that I am getting is:
> >
> > Failed to obtain license for feature:  GLX
> >
> > I get the error message 10 times from login to the point the desktop is
> > fully loaded (and another three or four times when Konqueror loads, etc.)
> >
> > The hardware that has these errors is the NCD HMX and NCD MCX product
> > lines.  These are diskless workstations with 8-bit color.  Newer
> > workstations like the Thinstar product line and the NC900 appear to be
> > fine.
> >
> > Any pointers would be appreciated

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