I figured this might be the problem, however, parallels has some form of 3D acceleration, and I know this because I have rviz and compiz (visual effects) working in it. Also, the boxturtle build of gazebo works just fine in my virtual machine, which leads me to believe it might be a bug or change in requirements from the previous version that is causing the error. I will attempt to find a computer with a better video card and Ubuntu with which to test this theory, but I may not have one at my disposal. Does anyone know if the error I posted is specifically related to insufficient graphics capabilities? Thanks for your help so far, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Woodall Graduate Software Engineering Auburn University w@auburn.edu wjwwood@gmail.com 256-345-9938 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu wrote: > Hi, > > What graphics card and driver do you have? > > Gazebo/Ogre needs hardware acceleration, from my experience parallel's will > not work. Older ATI drivers also have incompatible OpenGL implementations. > Most NVIDIA cards seems to run fine. > Please see > http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements > for list of tested cards and drivers. > > John > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, William Woodall wrote: > >> I am trying to use the cturtle binaries on ubuntu to experiment with >> gazebo's new features. When I run `roslaunch gazebo_worlds >> empty_world.launch` I get this error: >> >> http://gist.github.com/430689 >> >> In trying to debug this we have tried to run this on two different macbook >> pros running ubuntu lucid in parallels and on a laptop running lucid that >> has an ati x1300 moble all with the same result. >> >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> William Woodall >> Graduate Software Engineering >> Auburn University >> w@auburn.edu >> wjwwood@gmail.com >> 256-345-9938 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >