If that doesn't help, it may be some problem specific to your GPU. Can you run "view3dscene --debug-log > log.txt" and attach the resulting log.txt? Thanks!
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This is hapenning when starting view3dscene. The window frame appears, and before anything is drawn inside, it crashes :
yann@yann-netbook:~/Documents/view3dscene$ ./view3dscene
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
view3dscene: Exception EAccessViolation :
Access violation
yann@yann-netbook:~/Documents/view3dscene$
My system is Ubuntu 13.10.
the crash occurs with the freshy compiled latest SVN, and also with the precompiled binaries.
Can you check do any other OpenGL application or game works, to make sure OpenGL is working Ok?
Check do you have dependencies installed, see http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/view3dscene.php#section_depends . Almost everything is standard and should already be part of normal Ubuntu install, but make sure that you have gtkglext installed.
If that doesn't help, it may be some problem specific to your GPU. Can you run "view3dscene --debug-log > log.txt" and attach the resulting log.txt? Thanks!