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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Nighto on June 08, 2006, 03:04:30 am

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: Nighto on June 08, 2006, 03:04:30 am

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kurumin@kurumin:~/tremulous$ ./tremulous.x86
tremulous 1.1.0 linux-x86 Feb 28 2006
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/kurumin/.tremulous/base
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/vms-1.1.0.pk3 (4 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-uncreation-1.1.0.pk3 (110 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-tremor-1.1.0.pk3 (45 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-transit-1.1.0.pk3 (135 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-niveus-1.1.0.pk3 (134 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-nexus6-1.1.0.pk3 (151 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-karith-1.1.0.pk3 (118 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-atcs-1.1.0.pk3 (87 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/map-arachnid2-1.1.0.pk3 (67 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base/data-1.1.0.pk3 (1229 files)
/home/kurumin/tremulous/base

----------------------
2080 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
execing autogen.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----

------- Input Initialization -------
Joystick is not active.
------------------------------------
...loading libGL.so.1:
Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) passed.
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 3: 640 480
SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
Using 8/8/8 Color bits, 16 depth, 8 stencil display.
GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect


***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem


I'm sure that my 3d drivers are activated. what can i do?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsyste
Post by: Teiman on June 08, 2006, 03:35:38 pm

1) maybe your card is not nvidia.
2) can you play other 3d games?
3) can you play other quake games? enemy territory?
4) etc.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: Draconishinobi on June 09, 2006, 10:37:49 pm

It would help if you told us your distro and video card make.

Make sure you install glx drivers for the card ... instructions on how to activate it should come as documentation.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: Nighto on June 10, 2006, 03:07:25 pm

i realized that in a short power my filesystem had a little of corruption, and that i should reinstall the drivers. Not it's working! Thanks a lot.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: benplaut on June 17, 2006, 03:24:57 am

almost the same error over here, ati radeon mobile 7500, Arch Linux.

3d is enabled (using DRI), and it's the same xorg.conf as my ubuntu install, where everything worked fine.

Here's the log (not sure how different it is)

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tremulous 1.1.0 linux-x86 Jun 14 2006
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/gimmick/.tremulous/base
/opt/tremulous/base/vms-1.1.0.pk3 (4 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-uncreation-1.1.0.pk3 (110 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-tremor-1.1.0.pk3 (45 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-transit-1.1.0.pk3 (135 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-niveus-1.1.0.pk3 (134 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-nexus6-1.1.0.pk3 (151 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-karith-1.1.0.pk3 (118 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-atcs-1.1.0.pk3 (87 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/map-arachnid2-1.1.0.pk3 (67 files)
/opt/tremulous/base/data-1.1.0.pk3 (1229 files)
/opt/tremulous/base

----------------------
2080 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec autogen.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
execing quickChat.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----

------- Input Initialization -------
Joystick is not active.
------------------------------------
...loading libGL.so.1:
Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) passed.
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 3: 640 480
Using 8/8/8 Color bits, 24 depth, 8 stencil display.
GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect


***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!  
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: tjw on June 17, 2006, 06:55:51 am

***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!  

You need to install the mesa package that has DRI support.  Looks like it's called libgl-dri on arch.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: benplaut on June 18, 2006, 01:21:43 am

Quote from: "tjw"

***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!  

You need to install the mesa package that has DRI support.  Looks like it's called libgl-dri on arch.

already have it...  :(

Title: Did anyone read the message?!?
Post by: Chaom on June 18, 2006, 05:55:31 pm

Well after I got that error, I simply read the message. It told me this.

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***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!  
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
I just added the "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1" to the end of the run command and my game ran fine. See if this helps  :D .

Title: Did anyone read the message?!?
Post by: Chaom on June 18, 2006, 05:56:27 pm

Well after I got that error, I simply read the message. It told me this.

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***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!  
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
I just added the "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1" to the end of the run command and my game ran fine. See if this helps  :D .

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: benplaut on June 19, 2006, 04:59:57 am

the game will start that way, but it's software rendering... slow as f* and looks horrible.

i went into settings and it said it was using libGL.so.1, like it should... it exists in /usr/lib, but isn't working for some reason

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: Danish on July 05, 2006, 01:02:27 pm

had a tough time with my voodoo 5 5500 after I installed XP, and 2k on two of my boxes. Since, they both had V5 5500's I could not play Jedi Knight, Mohaa, SOF2, etc. So I looked into it, and found that if you install WickedGL, CHANGE the FILENAME of the game you want to play (ex: ~/JediKnightII/jk2sp.ede) to quake3.exe, open WickedGL, scan that directory for Quake3, it will notify you that it has been found, then change the filename back to the original, and BOOM your back to hardcore gaming.


Download Locations:
- Download http://www.voodoofiles.com/getit.asp?id=6581&g=1&d=5&s=720639503

But it may be a quake3 problem inside...
I found this http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316474

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: benplaut on July 15, 2006, 12:19:55 am

@Danish:
I'm confused... what parts there were in windows, and which in linux 0_o

i can try something in wine, not dual booting, though

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: drag on July 16, 2006, 05:07:50 am

I had a similar problem with Linux using the Free software DRI drivers on my x800. The r300_dri.so drivers from Mesa CVS.

Try running the game with
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
set.  This will allow more insight into what is going wrong.

If you get a error that is similar to this:

LibGL error: dlopen <path to your *_dri.so driver) failed (<path to your *_dri.so driver>: undefined symbol: _glapi_add_dispatch)
LibGL error: unable to find driver: *_dri.so

and so on and so forth. I beleive that this is due to a problem with how these quake-based games dlopen the file and strips some sort of information out of the libgl.so library file that the driver depends on.

I don't know, it's over my head. You'd probably have to ask the dri folks exactly why this is happenning.

But to fix this you need to preload the libGL.so.1 library file. Like this:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
before starting tremulous.

Then it should work fine with full acceleration.

Hope that helps.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: peoro on July 24, 2006, 08:31:57 am

Quote from: "drag"

I had a similar problem with Linux using the Free software DRI drivers on my x800. The r300_dri.so drivers from Mesa CVS.

Try running the game with
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
set.  This will allow more insight into what is going wrong.

If you get a error that is similar to this:

LibGL error: dlopen <path to your *_dri.so driver) failed (<path to your *_dri.so driver>: undefined symbol: _glapi_add_dispatch)
LibGL error: unable to find driver: *_dri.so

and so on and so forth. I beleive that this is due to a problem with how these quake-based games dlopen the file and strips some sort of information out of the libgl.so library file that the driver depends on.

I don't know, it's over my head. You'd probably have to ask the dri folks exactly why this is happenning.

But to fix this you need to preload the libGL.so.1 library file. Like this:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
before starting tremulous.

Then it should work fine with full acceleration.

Hope that helps.

I had this problem too, with my matrox G400 and MesaGL+dri.
This is not a q3's problem, but a dri's one, look here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114901304400001&r=1&w=2

Old drivers (dri included in Xorg 6) work fine.

I spent a couple of weeks to find out that problem

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: dodo1122 on July 24, 2006, 05:27:05 pm

had same thing, download driver and install it again (form nvidia web site)

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: kramed on July 24, 2006, 06:11:13 pm

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: ripper614 on August 02, 2006, 10:52:30 pm

im having this problem: could not open GL subsystem heres the code help me someone!...calling CDS: ok
...created window@0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: David on August 02, 2006, 11:57:02 pm

Quote from: "ripper614"

im having this problem: could not open GL subsystem heres the code help me someone!...calling CDS: ok
...created window@0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

it says missing Glide install. go to there wepsire and download it.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: DIGI_Byte on August 03, 2006, 02:13:10 am

i have some problem a bit like that
gtkr qorks fine in quake 3 mode but wheen i tried trem mode it comes up with an openGL error all textures are white becuase of it i think mine has to do with system.config file

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: ripper614 on August 12, 2006, 10:13:02 pm

i got your message, but were is the wepspire section

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: caribou on April 16, 2007, 04:59:21 pm

Hello, I'm upping this topic because I have the same message here :

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Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Here is the history :

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tremulous 1.1.0 linux-x86 Oct  5 2006
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/caribou/.tremulous/base
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/vms-1.1.0.pk3 (4 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-uncreation-1.1.0.pk3 (110 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-tremor-1.1.0.pk3 (45 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-transit-1.1.0.pk3 (135 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-niveus-1.1.0.pk3 (134 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-nexus6-1.1.0.pk3 (151 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-karith-1.1.0.pk3 (118 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-atcs-1.1.0.pk3 (87 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-arachnid2-1.1.0.pk3 (67 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/data-1.1.0.pk3 (1229 files)
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base
/usr/lib/tremulous/base

----------------------
2080 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec autogen.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----

------- Input Initialization -------
Joystick is not active.
------------------------------------
...loading libGL.so.1:
Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


       ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ---------------------
             (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
             (c) 2002-2004  convergence GmbH
        -----------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2006-12-04 07:00)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMXEXT optimized memcpy()
(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
    --> No such file or directory
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
    --> Initialization error!
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) failed: DirectFBCreate: Initialization error!
failed
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

And now the things I can tell you :

- I can't start the game as 'root'
- I'm executing the game as 'caribou' (normal user, not root)
- 'uname -a' says 'Linux Caribox 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux'
- The graphic packages I've installed are : nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-486, nvidia-kernel-common, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconf
- When I try to install the 686 nvidia packages I can't load the 'nvidia' module
- 'glxinfo |grep direct' return :
-- as root

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direct rendering: Yes
-- as caribou

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Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Error: unable to open display (null)

What I understand is that as 'caribou' I can't load the 3D support then I can give you my sudoers but like I said before "I can't start the game as 'root'"

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-su: tremulous: command not found

My 'sudoers'

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# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

Defaults        env_reset

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%adm ALL=(ALL) ALL

Thank you :)

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: Caveman on April 16, 2007, 05:10:09 pm

NEVER EVER use root to run USER-space programs.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: caribou on April 16, 2007, 05:12:25 pm

Ok I write down :)

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: next_ghost on April 16, 2007, 10:10:52 pm

Append to your xorg.conf or whatever X server configuration file you use:

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Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Quote from: "David"

it says missing Glide install. go to there wepsire and download it.

:roll: QUAKE 3 USES GLIDE AS FALLBACK DRIVER BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1999! GLIDE IS __NOT__ USED IN NEW GRAPHICS CHIPSETS SINCE 2001!

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: tomek-k on April 16, 2007, 11:49:22 pm

not sure if it has anything to do with 3D acceleration, but are you (the user 'caribou') a member of a group called 'video'?

besides - what card do you have? some old or new nvidia?

and @next_ghost - don't you remember that nvidia drivers do not use DRI? so there should not be any DRI section in the X configuration

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: Caveman on April 17, 2007, 12:11:05 am

Not only that.
Trem should not be trying to use the FrameBuffer device.
But that is what you get when you do a "su -" while running a X and denying root the usage of X.

Just run Trem as the user that started X and you are set.

Title: Re: Did anyone read the message?!?
Post by: got_nix on April 21, 2007, 06:49:48 pm

Quote from: "Chaom"

Well after I got that error, I simply read the message. It told me this.

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***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!  
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
I just added the "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1" to the end of the run command and my game ran fine. See if this helps  :D .

This worked for me.. however it moved really slouchy.

Title: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
Post by: tomek-k on April 22, 2007, 12:30:21 pm

yeah, that's not the best solution

have you tried running this before tremulous?

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export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
does it help?