# Having trouble to start Paraview
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 7, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931 "2019-11-07T20:36:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@kirathegreat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kirathegreat)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931/1 "2019-11-07T20:36:02Z")
Hello,
I am currently experiencing trouble starting Paraview on my newly built Linux Station. For the hardware my graphics card is **AMD Radeon Pro WX7100** , for system I have **LInux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon 4.2.4**. I tried to start Paraview in terminal and it popped up for half second and closed up with the following errors:
> The directory /util/paraview/bin has been temporarily
> added to your path for this shell session.
>
> Here are the programs available in that directory:
> paraview paraview-config pvbatch pvdataserver pvpython pvrenderserver pvserver
>
> If you need to restart the graphical version, type: paraview
>
> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi (search paths /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/dri:$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
> libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi (search paths /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/dri:$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
> libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/dri:$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
> X Error: GLXBadContext 170
> Extension: 155 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 6 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x5c000c9
> X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
> Extension: 155 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x0
> ERROR: In /wakko/yearke/work/projects/ParaView/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 633
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3a6a5e0): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting.
>
> Abort (core dumped)
Any help will be appreciated! Thank you!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931/2 "2019-11-08T09:19:53Z")
Looks like a graphic driver issue. What is the output of `glxinfo` ?
Which version of ParaView are you trying to run ?
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### Author:  [@kirathegreat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kirathegreat)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931/3 "2019-11-08T19:26:44Z")
I am not entirely sure which version of Paraview I have, my school IT dept installed it, it seems like either 4.3.1 or 5.2.0.
for glxinfo, the following showed on terminal when I put in the command, it is too long so I am going to break it out to a couple reply:
> name of display: :0
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.4
> Extended renderer info (GLX\_MESA\_query\_renderer):
> Vendor: [X.Org](http://X.Org) (0x1002)
> Device: AMD Radeon ™ Pro WX 7100 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.23.0, 4.15.0-54-generic, LLVM 8.0.0) (0x67c4)
> Version: 19.0.8
> Accelerated: yes
> Video memory: 8192MB
> Unified memory: no
> Preferred profile: core (0x1)
> Max core profile version: 4.5
> Max compat profile version: 4.5
> Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
> Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
> Memory info (GL\_NVX\_gpu\_memory\_info):
> Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB
> Total available memory: 16384 MB
> Currently available dedicated video memory: 7636 MB
> OpenGL vendor string: [X.Org](http://X.Org)
> OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon ™ Pro WX 7100 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.23.0, 4.15.0-54-generic, LLVM 8.0.0)
> OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 19.0.8
> OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931/8 "2019-11-09T13:19:39Z")
Can you try with ParaView 5.7.0 ?
[https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)
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### Author:  [@kirathegreat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kirathegreat)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931/9 "2019-11-11T21:01:49Z")
Hello, I don’t think it has anything to do with the paraview version, it is the same version installed in all machines in my school, the only things that my machine differs from the others is the system Mint (as oppose to Centos) and the AMD card (as oppose to NVIDIA)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/having-trouble-to-start-paraview/2931/10 "2019-11-12T09:14:06Z")
Sorry, no AMD card to reproduce your issue with.