Quake4 unable to initialize openGL natively or in Wine

[Matthew Gillen]

On 10/27/2009 10:52 AM, Linux User wrote:
> I have a ATi Radeon 3100 HD using the 9.9 Catalsyt Drivers running on a AMD 
> Athlon 64 X2, Fedora 11 x86_64. Before I report in a bug, should there be 
> anything I should be doing to get Quake4 running? I don't understand why 
> Quake4 would have trouble running under wine for the same issues. 
> 
> In wine Quake4 fails with the error: err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglinfo  
> couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems.
> 
> Run natively, Quake4 fails: Unable to initialize OpenGL... Unable to find 
> matching GLX visual

One thing that was an issue for me in the past with wine (but with the Nvidia
drivers) was that I needed the x86 OpenGL libraries installed as well as the
x86_64.  For nvidia, the package name was:

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586

HTH,
Matt