Problem launching FlightGear

[drhind]

I used the synaptic package manager to load FlightGear: It does not run on my system. Any ideas?

drhind@legolas:~$ fgfs
freeglut (fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for window 'FlightGea r'
This may hurt performance.
opening file: /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Navaids/carrier_nav.dat
/usr/share/games/FlightGear/Navaids/TACAN_freq.dat
fgfs: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertion `a ! = ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted
drhind@legolas:~$

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

Thanks for your bug report.

I'm changing this bug to freeglut3, since the same freeglut3 message appears on my system when running Torcs with compiz-fusion enabled in gutsy. Did you have compiz or beryl enabled?

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

A similar bug could be Debian bug 334349 (link http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334349 ). I'm also looking for the debian bug in which the same "Unable to create direct context..." message appears.

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

Another debian bug, in which they seem to patch something in freeglut that fixes kwin but slows down games is http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392658 I hope this helps any developer.

[Alexander Kopf (kopf-alexander)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because it can't be reproduced in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Intrepid Ibex and there hasn't been any activity for a while as described in the previous comments.

For those still facing this issue, make sure your drivers are 3d accellerated, if you have an nvidia card you'll need to install the proprietary drivers if you havent already done so.

Then please reopen it if when you've checked that your drivers are 3d accellerated, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!