I installed blender by following the instructions on the official website.
(i use linux ).
however when i try to run blender by either double clicking on the launcher in the file browser or by entering it into the command line blender tries to start up but then it crashes.
this is the error message i get when i enter it into the command line
guessing 'blender-bin' == '/usr/bin/blender-bin'
Compiled with Python version 2.5.1.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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I have a ATI radeon graphics card and a P4 computer comfigured for dual boot on linux and XP. 256 RAM
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Can you run using gdb and try getting a stack backtrace?
Also, this is using blender installed from blender.org?
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can you explain a little more? should i run a command called gdb? (I'm very new to linux.)
Yes I downloaded from linux .org
when i got it form the repos i had the same rpoblem
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This (99.9% sure) means you have ATI drivers that don't accept Blender (or any more advanced opengl program). Try to install the official drivers from ati.com (not the DRI).
Do a search on blenderartists.org forums about this issue, there you can also get more support in debugging blender, learning to use gdb, stacktraces etc. :)
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This is a generic request to test your bug report and see if it is still an issue in 2.5alpha2 if so please let me know by making a comment in this report ie 'also in 2.5alpha2' and I will add it to the 2.5 bug list.