# OpenGL error with ParaView 5.7.0 on Linux

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opengl-error-with-paraview-5-7-0-on-linux/2888
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** opengl
**Created:** [November 1, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opengl-error-with-paraview-5-7-0-on-linux/2888 "2019-11-01T16:02:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/olesenm/32/17416_2.png) [@olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/olesenm)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opengl-error-with-paraview-5-7-0-on-linux/2888/1 "2019-11-01T16:02:04Z")

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I can build 5.7.0 without any problems on Linux (with/without MPI), (with/without python), but the resulting binaries bomb immediately with an OpenGL error:

```auto
$ export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose

$ paraview

libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

```

Same machine with presumably the same build options shows no issues. To verify somewhat, I also rebuilt 5.6.3 and that starts without any problem.

I have nvidia drivers installed.  
System: openSUSE 15.0

/mark

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### Author: ![hgropelli](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hgropelli/32/1559_2.png) [@hgropelli](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hgropelli)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opengl-error-with-paraview-5-7-0-on-linux/2888/2 "2019-11-02T12:30:42Z")

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I’m having a similar problem. I also have Nvidia drivers installed on centos 8. I don’t have much knowledge of symlinks but they appear to be correct.

 ![Screenshot_20191102-084922](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a1f9b144a242d9fb34869fe6c8d284cb99a99763.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20191102-090501](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/90671f439a1cbbd64ed0fd658b8e1eec75439131.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20191102-085042](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c848e8f736cfba2dd239da4efef52ccb5512d2c9.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20191102-091531](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8b2c1c14d037ef818f61beb90d1ea2b96c44bcd7.jpeg)

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### Author: ![olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/olesenm/32/17416_2.png) [@olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/olesenm)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opengl-error-with-paraview-5-7-0-on-linux/2888/3 "2019-11-03T17:54:06Z")

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My problem seems to have been related to a NVIDIA driver issue. Looks like it could have been a bad driver update that didn’t get triggered by earlier paraview versions, but as you know these things are really difficult to pin-point.  
I did a slightly overdue system update (to openSUSE 15.1) without any NVIDIA drivers, but with Mesa only. This works. I then followed this with adding in the drivers (nvidia-glG04-390.129-lp151.7.1.x86\_64 for what it’s worth). Now seems to be working without issue, but still not fully confident for another few days.

/mark