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Am using xbmc-9.11-1.fc12.i386 on Fedora 12 with a nVidia FX5200 card, i.e. using 173xx drivers.

This was working fine until abt a month ago when I upgraded the xorg files and I got this message when starting XBMC:

Quote:XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
install an appropriate graphics driver.
Please consult XBMC Wiki for supported hardware
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Supported_hardware

I have tried, but failed, installing the noveau drivers following leigh's guide, so I have gone back to using the old xorg files ver 1.7.1-7.fc12. There has been at least three newer versions since then and all give the above message:

Is there some hack in XBMC that could stop it checking the video card and get on with it, instead of exiting, as clearly XBMC works with my present video drivers?
XBMC works fine on the same box at the Mandriva 2010 partition (and also on the XP partition). Why all the sudden not on Fedora?
The xorg update overwrote some files installed by the nvidia driver, so you need to reinstall the nvidia drivers after installing the xorg update.

I doubt there's anything wrong with the check.
Thanks JumJum, will try to do that.
Reinstalling using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.22-pkg1.run did the trick. Thanks JumJum
hello i think im having kind of the same problem with the same video card.

i installed xbmc using the live distro and after installation it went directly into the terminal. i figured that i just didnt have the right drivers for my video card, which is the fx5200. So i logged in and used apt-get install and installed nvidia-glx-173. After installation.. xbmc started right away and i was brought to the main xbmc screen. The GUI ran smoothly and i could play videos. However, when i rebooted i got the "Error
XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. Install an appropirate graphic driver".

so i tried reinstalling the drives using this link: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Bui..._XBMC_Live.
Using method 1. I tried using the lastest driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.25-pkg1.run and i tried NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.20-pkg1.run still no luck.

If you could explain exactly how you fixed your problem or give some advice it'd be much appreciated. thank you.

also im not really experienced in linux so bare with me :X
nevermind i got it to work using method 2 in this link: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#In....2FAMD_GPU

wooo!