LabVIEW 8 won't start-up on Mandrakelinux 10.1

[Tom_D]

Hello,
I'm trying to install LabVIEW 8 on Mandrakelinux 10.1 official. LabVIEW is installed in the default /usr/local without any errors.
When I try to run it from the command terminal, an error is returned ( symbol lookup error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libOSMesa.so.4: undefined symbol: _glapi_get_proc_address).
When I run
ldd -r libOSMesa.so*
in the appropriate directory I get a list of undefined symbols (sin, cos, pow, sqrt, _glapi_Dispatch, and so on)

This error was posted in this forum last december for a Fedora4 and a SUSE Linux system ( http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=159652#M159652 ) and the conclusion was a conflict with NVIDIA graphics drivers.
I get this error eventhough there is no NVIDIA based graphics card inside my pc.
Does anyone have a clue how to solve this?
Thanks in advance,
Tom

[TI_GPIB]

Tom,

I had a similar problem with RHEL4 WS (Update 3).  I resolved the issue by upgrading all of the xorg packages to version -EL.13.25.1

Hope this helps.

Bob

[Tom_D]

Hi Bob,
I managed to get it working already some time ago. It seems that when I install (Mandrake) Linux on a system equipped with a 3D video card, it automatically installs the 3D Mesa library "libMesaGL1-5.0.2-8mdk". LabVIEW won't startup when this library is installed. I discovered this when comparing the installed packages between 2 PCs (one without 3D video card 🙂
I had the same problem on a HP nc6110 laptop, and this trick also solved the problem there...
best regards and thanks for your reply,

Tom Daenen