Eagle CAD on Solus

one_good_eye

Hi I am interested in seeing if anyone has had success with getting Eagle CAD to work on Solus. Currently I have had the "could not initialize GLX" error. I was wondering if there has been a solution found by someone else on how to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

Justin

Can you paste the entire error when running it, might help other forum users assist you further.

one_good_eye

Justin Here is the result I had when I ran it with sudo
ics-pc@mr_s-pc ~/Autodesk_EAGLE_9.4.2_English_Linux_64bit/eagle-9.4.2 $ sudo ./eagle run Password: QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' Could not initialize GLX Aborted
Also the one I ran without sudo
ics-pc@mr_s-pc ~/Autodesk_EAGLE_9.4.2_English_Linux_64bit/eagle-9.4.2 $ ./eagle run Could not initialize GLX Aborted

Justin

Do you have an NVIDIA graphics card? If so try installing the proprietary drivers, a quick Google suggests this may fix it.

one_good_eye

Justin I should have put this up first that I am attempting to use this on a laptop without dedicated graphics the CPU is an Intel i5-4210u. I am not sure if there is some relation to this but there could be a problem with video driver versions in general from what I have read on this one example with arch

At least from my perspective currently it might be video driver related but I am unsure if that is the root cause.

Justin

The error it gives in relation to GLX is definitely video related, likely drivers.

one_good_eye

Thanks Justin for the help. I made a script to simplify the start up process of Eagle CAD.

#!/bin/bash cd /home/ics-pc/Autodesk_EAGLE_9.4.2_English_Linux_64bit/eagle-9.4.2;QT_XCB_GL_INTEGRATION=xcb_egl ./eagle

I made a bash script that goes to the folder where I have stored Eagle CAD then runs the command to start Eagle CAD which is the part after the semicolon. I did use menulibre to create a menu icon by pointing it to where I had my script placed and turned on the function "run in terminal". This works as of 7/27/19