Failed to start xgl

[Rich Wareham]

Hanno Böck wrote:
> I tried to install xgl on Gentoo based on glitz/mesa/kdrive-cvs.
> 
> I'm using fglrx-driver on a Radeon 9200.
> 
> When trying to start Xgl :1 -ac, I get this error:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib 
> length error)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  144 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_GLXRender)
>   Serial number of failed request:  91
>   Current serial number in output stream:  92
> 
> I have not patched mesa-cvs with davidr's patches, because current cvs fails 
> to compile with them (already said this in another thread), so this might be 
> the reason.

I get this if it tries to use the Mesa libGL.so with the nVidia 
proprietry drivers. Try

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so Xgl :1 -ac

(or wherever your distro installs libGL.so).

-- 
Rich