<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear Sir, I given the command what you suggested for knowing the graphics card. The out put of the command is ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   *-display UNCLAIMED            description: VGA compatible controller        product: 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 2        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0        version: 10        width: 32 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list        configuration: latency=0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can suggest me sir the solution of the problem now. Thanking you Sincerely D.Srinivas Desamsetti Srinivas Research Scholar Department of Meteorology and Oceanography Andhra University Visakhapatnam - 530 003 91 9491686740 (M) sreeds82@yahoo.com sreeds82@rediffmail.com --- On Sat, 7/4/09, Nils Kassube <kassube@gmx.net> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Nils Kassube <kassube@gmx.net> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] OpenGL installation in Ubuntu Linux PC-Problem To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 1:17 PM <div class="plainMail">Srinivas Desamsetti wrote: > After installing the freeglut software I got an error. > Please give me some directions to solve this problem. > > freeglut (./globe_cloud2): Unable to create direct context rendering > for window './globe_cloud2' Googling your error message I found e.g. [1] and it seems you need an accelerated graphics driver for your hardware. Can you tell us which graphics card you have? The command sudo lshw -C display in a terminal should provide information about your graphics card. Nils [1] <<a href="http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=233769" target="_blank">http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=233769</a>> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>