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thank you good sir.
i'm glad i got all that cleared up.
now i'm back to where i started...i'm getting X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) again...i'll look more into that problem when i get home.

I did a search on your error message, "X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)" and it looks like your version of X Window is broken. It can be fixed by running your update manager. That is if you can still update the version you are running. As root run:

# aptitude update

# aptitude safe-upgrade

and if that works it should fix your problem, But it may make new problems for you too. Many that use LinuxCNC say never to upgrade but I'm not seeing any other way you can fix this. There are other ways, but I'm not seeing any other way you can fix this if you know what I mean. Because those other ways that I can think of are very involved.

Anyhow good luck.

pfred1 wrote:
You shouldn't upgrade the Linux version, as LinuxCNC is very dependent on a specific kernel.

However you can (and should) _update_ things.

Hi

Finally found this
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/877905
which is what pfred1 is referring to

Looks like a fix has been made for Lucid, and far from upgrading, it is actually a forced downgrade of xorg to remove the element introduced in the previous update,
that caused the error with GLX!

Whatever the semantics, doing as he said should rectify the packages and allow you to run GLX programs (Axis) again

You should be able to do it by running the Update Manager, but check the actual packages to be installed first.
(Just don't want any linux kernel, kernel modules etc entries.)
I did it yesterday on another box and did notice xorg was listed

regards

andypugh wrote:
Thanks for clearing that up Andy. I just didn't want them to hose their system, then say I didn't tell them it might happen. Because it might. Then again it isn't like it is working now.

ArcEye wrote:
LinuxCNC isn't mainstream Linux so there seem to be more pitfalls trying to use it than there normally are. Caveat emptor!

Pro Tip: Run aptitude in a terminal then save the output for reference if some things don't work out. I still need to improve my package-fu here, but I'm getting better lately. When I really delve into it, it is quite complex.