Several weeks ago James Begley and I found pretty much this same problem in Fedora 25. When using the NVidia proprietary driver (version 375.66), loch fails to start with an error
Error: glXCreateContent failed
In my testing I found that the open-source Intel display driver (part of the Fedora distribution) and the VirtualBox display driver both work. They do not show this message.
I do not have a Fedora 25 machine with Nouveau driver, so I have not tried that. The only machine I have with Nouveau is CentOS6 and it is dedicated to running VirtualBox virtual machines.
Bill Gee
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 3:22:41 AM CDT Bjørn Egil Johansen via Therion wrote:
> Thanks for replies.
>
> I have now tried the Nouveau driver, and Loch works.
>
> Unfortunately I experience quite a lot of other problems with the nouveau
> driver. When booting with the nouveau driver I end up with a black screen,
> I need to use the acpi=off linux boot parameter to not get a black screen,
> but then I am not able to choose a higher screen resolution. This was the
> reason I changed to the propietary driver in the first place. This makes
> the nouveau driver not much of an option unless I can solve this problem,
> but I guess that is outside the scope of this list.
>
> Anyway, it then seems like my loch-problem is somehow related to the
> propietary nvidia driver.
>
> Best regards
> Bjørn Egil
>
> 2017-05-22 15:40 GMT+02:00 Wookey via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>:
> > On 2017-05-22 15:00 +0200, Bjørn Egil Johansen via Therion wrote:
> > > I have a fairly fresh Debian 9 Stretch 64bit install , using propietary
> > > NVIDIA-drivers. Therion from debian repositories 5.3.16-10+b4
> > >
> > > When trying to open Loch i encountered this error:
> > >
> > > Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> > > The program 'loch' received an X Window System error.
> >
> > Thanks for the thorough bug report. Putting this email in a debian
> > bugreport is
> > probably a good idea in case others come across the same problem.
> >
> > I don't actually have stretch installed yet on hardware with nvidia
> > GPU - but I guess it's time that I tried it, so I'll upgrade and see
> > if I can reproduce. I use the nouveau drivers so may not be able to
> > reproduce if it's actually to do with the binary drivers. I would
> > certainly try the noveau driver and see if it still happens to you or
> > not.
> >
> > Wookey
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