chooseGraphicsConfiguration() not used ... on Linux

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#1

I’ve been developing JOGL apps on Windows and Fedora for ages and never run into this. Trying to run the JOGL demo “Gears” (or any that use a GLCanvas for that matter) I get

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: GLDrawableFactory.chooseGraphicsConfiguration() was not used when creating this Component
at com.sun.opengl.impl.x11.X11GLDrawableFactory.getGLDrawable(X11GLDrawableFactory.java:238)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.(GLCanvas.java:142)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.(GLCanvas.java:90)
at demos.gears.Gears.main(Gears.java:24)

This is straight out-of-the-box jogl-1.1.1-linux-i586 (JSR-231-1.1.1a (June 18) (15)) and corresponding jogl demo code. Running Ubuntu 9.04 and Eclipse 3.2.

I’ve found posts related to multi-head monitors and X11 (not case here). Also I saw the reference to X11 in the JavaDoc, but choosing GLGraphicsCapabilities etc. doesn’t help. Does someone please have an answer?

I’ve never seen this before when calling new GLCanvas() !

#2

I love git … ‘git checkout 1.x-maint’ :slight_smile:

AWT Component’s comp.getGraphicsConfiguration() is null …

chooseGraphicsConfiguration() … is being called in GLCanvas
in the constructor, where an AWT GraphicsConfiguration is being set.

After that the getGLDrawable call happens …
Well, it worked a long time, now it doesn’t, puzzling.
Your peers seem no to be initialized hence GraphicsConfiguration is null.
It is guaranteed to be when addNotify is being called,
hence I changed this behavior in JOGL2 and do all of it at addNotify/removeNotify.

Looks like the initialization sequence of your running Java/AWT has changed.
Would you mind trying JOGL 2.x ?

Thx …

#3

OK. Thanks. Jogl 2.0 works, but it really breaks my FengGUI code :frowning:

Is there a workaround to get 1.1.1 going? Please?

#4

It is strange, I’m under Linux and I don’t reproduce your problem. I use Mandriva Linux 2007, JDK 1.6 update 11 and JOGL 1.1.1a.

#5

That’s why I was after some debugging tips. I’ve never had this issue on Fedora, but do now on a shiny new install of Ubuntu 9.04 on unmodified JOGL. I just need to know where to start looking…nvidia, jre, X11…

#6

OK it was the JRE. OpenJDK vs. Sun JRE (latter works).