[chimera-dev] installation problem in linux

[Greg Couch]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, venkataraman kabaleeswaran wrote:

> hi i had a following problem while install the chimera
> on linux,
>
> ./chimera
> OpenGL misconfiguration detected.
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 differs from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.
> Please read installation instructions.

So the link to the installation instructions is found on the download 
page: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2065/linux.html>.  Here is the 
relevant section:

"If Chimera terminates with the error 'OpenGL misconfiguration detected', 
that means that you have two different versions of libGL.so installed -- 
one in /usr/lib (installed by your graphics card drivers) and one in 
/usr/X11R6/lib (possibly installed by Mesa, which if so would mean no 
hardware graphics acceleration if this version were used).  Reinstalling 
your graphics card drivers should remove the /usr/X11R6/lib version. 
Alternatively, you could rename or remove the /usr/X11R6/lib version 
yourself.  With the latter approach you might want to verify that all 
OpenGL applications that you use continue to work before permanently 
removing the library."

 	Hope this helps,

 	Greg Couch
 	gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu