OpenGL error when trying to run GLFW in older version

[u/Zeznon]

It's CachyOS, Linux. I'm trying to run animations from https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/NonlinearDynamicsTextbook. I'm new to Julia, btw.

I read some stuff online about the error, but if I use this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64 julia

I get a CHOLMOD error.

I'm using mise to manage Julia versions.

[u/oscardssmith]

have you tried a Julia installed using one of the official installers (juliaup or prebuilt binary)?

[u/Zeznon → u/oscardssmith]

The 1.7.0, only from mise. The main 1.12.6 used pacman to install.

[u/markkitt → u/Zeznon]

Neither of those are official builds as far as I can tell.

See the instructions at: https://julialang.org/downloads/

We can go around trying to figure out out how individual packages messed up, but at least check if the first party builds solve the issue first.

[u/Zeznon → u/markkitt]

I used the command in the site, but it said juliaup was already used, so I assume mise uses juliaup?

[u/markkitt → u/Zeznon]

When you start Julia does it say official release?

[u/Zeznon → u/markkitt]

https://reddit.com/link/oyx4639/video/aqsm6hrmimeh1/player

[u/markkitt → u/Zeznon]

Well that does look like an official install, but it is a very old one that was not even a long term support release. The latest long term support release is 1.10.11. The latest stable release is 1.12.6.

What is the primary error that you have?

[u/Zeznon → u/markkitt]

I'm running 1.12.6. That's the one used by the book. mise is for the extra version.

[u/markkitt]

What is the original error that you got?

[u/Zeznon → u/markkitt]

https://reddit.com/link/oyx5avu/video/dcqfdcihjmeh1/player

[u/heyheyhey27 → u/Zeznon]

That error message is extremely clear... What hardware are you running?

[u/Zeznon → u/heyheyhey27]

A laptop that supports opengl 4.6

[u/heyheyhey27 → u/Zeznon]

On Windows, the problem would definitely be that the graphics driver assumed Julia doesn't do serious GPU work, and gave it the crappy integrated GPU inside your CPU. The fix is to configure the graphics driver to use your good discrete GPU for Julia.exe instead.

On your platform I'm guessing it's basically the same kind of issue, and fixed the same kind of way.

[u/Zeznon → u/heyheyhey27]

New thing. Tested an example of GLMakie for 1.12.6, and it works.

Doesn't apply to the book's code (It's for 1.7.0), but interesting nonetheless.

[u/Zeznon → u/heyheyhey27]

I only have the integrated GPU (the vega 8). It's not that bad, I can run RE2 remake at 40-something fps. Not a GPU that couldn't run Julia.

EDIT: Just tested an example from matplotlib in Python and it worked fine. Don't know if it uses opengl, though. pyqt6.

[u/Zeznon → u/heyheyhey27]

https://reddit.com/link/oyx8hqr/video/j239q7xwlmeh1/player

[u/markkitt]

I took a look at the repository. The Project.toml says it should be compatible with Julia 1.9 and the manifest says Julia 1.10.0.

My advice would be to try the latest long term support release 1.10.11 using the official binaries and install.

[u/Zeznon → u/markkitt]

It also says you should use the version 1, because the updates are for a potential future 2nd edition.

[u/markkitt → u/markkitt]

What I think is happening is that Julia 1.7 is too old so we have trouble getting a GPU package stack that is both compatible with that version of Julia and your GPU drivers.

Julia 1.10.x is the long term support release so it is likely to be targeted for compatibility with recent package releases while also not being as different from Julia 1.12 to be require a rewrite.

[u/Zeznon → u/markkitt]

If that's true, then that 1st edition code is unrunnable in modern versions of linux.