"XServer appears to lack the required GLX support" on Debian wheezy
Posted by Huy Dinh
Jul 23
Sooo, empathy broke down on Debian wheezy a few months ago ago, saying no more than this:
XServer appears to lack the required GLX support
Run 'empathy --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
Now that I got some free time to spare, I tried to get back empathy on my notebook. (XMPP-ing on my mobile instead was more than tedious at work.) xserver-xorg-core changelog claims that this problem has been fixed some time ago and even though that version has been pushed to wheezy already, the problem persisted on my notebook.
After some more reading the internets and checking my installed packages, I found out that libgl1-mesa-dri was not installed, because xserver-xorg-core listed that package as "recommends" only. Once libgl1-mesa-dri was installed... my empathy started without any complaints! \o/
Maybe... time for compiz. I think compiz ran into the same error, but it's been too long for me to remember.
