# Paraview: Cannot create GLX context
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-cannot-create-glx-context/2992
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 15, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-cannot-create-glx-context/2992 "2019-11-15T19:57:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@kirathegreat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kirathegreat)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-cannot-create-glx-context/2992/1 "2019-11-15T19:57:19Z")
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** , for Paraview version I am not entirely sure, my department IT people installed it, I found in my bin two folders of 4.3.1 and 5.2.0 . 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: 0x74000c9
> 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 (0x363a940): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting.
>
> Abort (core dumped)
I am not sure why this is happening, seems very likely that there’s something to do with the graphic driver or library linking. The IT people in my department don’t want to deal with my AMD card, so I have to figure out what’s wrong and what’s needed to fix this issue so that they could fix it. (I don’t have root access)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-cannot-create-glx-context/2992/2 "2019-11-18T09:13:23Z")
@cory.quammen @martink : That is the third user with AMD specific problems. We may want to test on our side.