Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] failure on GNU/Linux (Debian) on AMD Duron hardware

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, I have a nearly ten year old PII-266 with Cirrus Logic graphics card 
> that runs the Python game "bouncy" under Debian unstable  albeit very 
> slowly.
>
> I tried running this on an AMD Duron machine with GForce3 Ti200 graphics 
> card and the free "nv" X.org driver, and received the following error. 
> The error persisted when using the "vesa" X.org driver.
>
> Any ideas?
>   
I've just successfully run bouncy on an AMD64 Gentoo box with the
PyOpenGL version in CVS. There were a few missing aliases for functions
(old "convenient" names that didn't get reproduced in PyOpenGL). I've
added a bit more debugging to the load-library operation so that you can
see what library name was passed and what it resulted in attempting to load.

The error does *not* look like a "glut is not installed" error (I've
just tested with GLUT removed on my machine and the glx module loads
fine without it). It looks more like a problem with linkage between your
GLUT library and the GL library, or something about how we load them,
anyway (the line in question *should* be attempting to load GLUT (at
least in CVS), but the error is that GL is not found).

Good luck,
Mike
...
>      from OpenGL.platform.glx import *
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/platform/glx.py", line
> 29, in ?
>      mode=ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/platform/ctypesloader.py", line
> 37, in loadLibrary
>      return dllType( name, mode )
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/__init__.py", line 340,
> in __init__
>      self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
> OSError: GL: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>   
...

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