Bug 445595

Summary: Wings 3D won't start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frank Murphy <frankly3d>
Component: wingsAssignee: Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Frank Murphy 2008-05-07 20:54:14 UTC 
Description of problem: Wings 3D won't stay open


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
wings-0.99.02-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Applications 
2. Graphics
3. Wings 3D
  
Actual results:
Briefest of window flash

Expected results:
Working wings3d

Additional info from terminal: 
#wings 
erlexec: Error 2 executing '/usr/lib/wings/bin/beam.smp'.
Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:47:56 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 2 Gérard Milmeister 2008-06-06 18:45:34 UTC 
What graphics card is it?
Comment 3 Frank Murphy 2008-06-06 18:59:07 UTC 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1)

Using nv drivers
Comment 4 Gérard Milmeister 2008-06-06 19:41:17 UTC 
nv does not support accelerated opengl. Probably wings doesn't work with
software opengl.
Comment 5 Frank Murphy 2008-06-06 19:47:30 UTC 
What card would you reccomend, maker\model?
Comment 6 Gérard Milmeister 2008-06-06 20:07:19 UTC 
Best to keep your card, and install the proprietary drivers.
Comment 7 Frank Murphy 2008-06-08 09:18:56 UTC 
Installed the proprietry drivers from freshrpms, didn't work so tried the "f9"
drivers. Still no joy

nvidia-x11-drv-169.12-1.fc8.i386
nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.fc9

Thought I have got wings working on another box using the 9 driver.
with a 512mb nvidia card.
Comment 8 Gérard Milmeister 2008-06-08 10:05:06 UTC 
Please provide the output of glxinfo (package glx-utils)
Comment 9 Frank Murphy 2008-06-08 10:16:18 UTC 
Created attachment 308646 [details]
glxinfo output
Comment 10 Hezekiah M. Carty 2008-06-08 18:57:28 UTC 
I have the same problem on Fedora 9 AMD64/x64-64, on a Core 2 Duo system.  My
video card is an Intel X3100.  I do have working 3D acceleration, though it is a
little slow.

I had the same problem and was able to fix/work around the problem by creating
beam.smp as a symbolic link to beam (as root):

cd /usr/lib64/wings/bin
ln -s beam beam.smp

Wings3D now works for me from the command line (run "wings") or from the Gnome
menu entry.
Comment 11 Frank Murphy 2008-06-08 19:15:19 UTC 
That work here to just removed the "64"
ln -s beam beam.smp

works gui and cli
Comment 12 Frank Murphy 2008-06-08 19:36:08 UTC 
Have also got it working in rawhide, but had to fiddle with selinux.
Comment 13 Sébastien Scour 2008-07-06 10:16:56 UTC 
I had the exact same problem on my system.
Hezkiah's solution worked fine for me (hooray !) Wings 3D now runs fine.
My laptop system is a fedora 9 X64 with Core 2 Duo (T7100) and a Nvidia Geforce
8400M G videocard (128MB)

Now works gui an cli.

Thanks.
Comment 14 Gérard Milmeister 2008-07-06 11:29:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 451570 ***