Fedora 29, Eagle 9.2.2 wont launch

[p.guenzel]

Hi everybody!

I recently upgraded from Fedora 28 to 29 and now I no longer can run Eagle.

Could not initialize GLX
Aborted (core dumped)

Since F29 also comes with GNOME 3.30, which pushes further Wayland, I strongly suspect this to cause the problem. But I am not expert enough to even have an idea on where to look for the problem (logs, debug messages, etc.) nor how to solve them, I thought I ask here, if anyone has already encountered (and possibly solved) this issue.

Kind regards

Patrick

PS. I'm running the open source Nuvou driver. Neither the i7 integrated nor the ATI dedicated GPU work (in respect to eagle)

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @pguenzel,

I hope you're doing well. We are very familiar with the Nouveau driver given problems with EAGLE. There are couple of things you can try. First go into the EAGLE's installation directory, you'll find a readme there with some suggestions of things you can try to get EAGLE to run on your Linux distro. Try running the suggestion of software acceleration that can usually get EAGLE to start but try all of the suggestions in that document and let me know where that takes you.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[Anonymous]

This issue does not seem to be only related to Nouveau driver. I am trying to use Eagle  Cad 9.2.2 on Fedora 29 workstation  with Intel GPU and still I am still getting "Could not initialize GLX". This seems to be related interaction with  libGLX_mesa. Could you please fix this?

thanks

fil

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem and the according part in the readme helped me fixing it ty a lot 🙂

> QT_XCB_GL_INTEGRATION=xcb_egl ./eagle

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem after updating to Fedora 29 and because I wanted to continue to work on my projects, after 10 years of using eagle I decided to give a try to KiCad 5.0. I was really impressed by the ease of use and the fast learning curve of this software, I don't think I will create again new projects with eagle. I'm not a professional but rather an advanced hobbyist that is doing some open-source scientific instrument. So KiCad really saved my day !

[fisasi1]

Hello: I have the same problem in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I have tried the solution explained in readme file but I got: libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
Could not initialize GLX

¿Any idea?

Thank you

[patrick2J6S4]

I have the same problem on Fedora 38

"""
$ QT_XCB_GL_INTEGRATION=xcb_egl ./eagle
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
Could not initialize GLX
Aborted (core dumped)
"""

[awaisdecent336]

The error message I'm facing is "Could not initialize GLX, Aborted (core dumped)." I suspect that the shift towards Wayland, especially with GNOME 3.30, might be causing this hiccup. Despite running the open-source Nouveau driver, neither my i7 integrated GPU nor the dedicated ATI GPU seems to work with posture corrector bra. I've checked for the latest Nouveau driver updates and attempted launching Eagle with Xorg explicitly.

[fronald]

In my case i have an Intel IRIS and NVIdia GTX. Use NVidia prime-run and all works:

prime-run /usr/local/eagle-9.6.2/eagle

The content of my prime-run script is:

#!/bin/bash
export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD_PROVIDER=NVIDIA-G0
export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
export __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only
export VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_1
export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json
exec "$@"