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When trying to run Sketchup 7 under Wine or VirtualBox you probably run into the errormessage 'SketchUp was unable to initialize OpenGL' the first time or next time you run SketchUp. Here is the solution...
For this article some Windows, Linux, VirtualBox en Wine knowledge is assumed. The VirtualBox configuration that I use is WindowsXP guest on a Linux (openSUSE 11.2) host, but the information in this article can also be applied on different configurations. This solution in this article may also be applied to older or newer versions of SketchUp.
Symptoms
When starting VirtualBox the first time, it maybe even works with minor glitches. A next time, when the introduction wizard is not shown, it will not start, showing a dialog with this error message:
SketchUp was unable to initalize OpenGL!
Please make sure you have installed the correct
drivers for your graphics card.
Error: ChoosePixelFormat failed
Please make sure you have installed the correct
drivers for your graphics card.
Error: ChoosePixelFormat failed
When closing the dialog another dialog with some garbage-squares flashes by, followed by an error submission dialog.
Quick solution
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\GLConfig\Display\HW_OK=1
Step by step instructions for VirtualBox
Add a Windows virtual machine
Under Settings - Display enable 3D acceleration (and also enable 2D acceleration if that option is available.
Increase Video memory, I put it on 32 MB
Start the Windows virtual machine and install SketchUp
Start regedit and change the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\GLConfig\Display\HW_OK=0
into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\GLConfig\Display\HW_OK=1
Start SketchUp and find it working more than acceptable. There are few minor cosmetic glitches with the menus, but besides that it works very fine.
Step by step instructions for Wine
Download and install SketchUp under wine, eg.
wine GoogleSketchUpWEN.exe
Start regedit, eg.
wine regedit
Change the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\GLConfig\Display\HW_OK=0
into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\GLConfig\Display\HW_OK=1
Also under Wine SketchUp runs very fine, with the same minor glitches as under VirtualBox. However, in Wine the keyboard shortcuts (like T for tape measure, space for selection, etc). are missing and I couldn't log in to the SketchUp warehouse. So bottom line, I prefer VirtualBox to do my SketchUp drawings.
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There are 2 comments 2011-09-24 21:33:01 posted by Y I |
To fix the keyboard shortcuts problem under wine do the following:
Click on> Window>Preference>Shortcuts>Reset All
Thats it :) hope that helps
Click on> Window>Preference>Shortcuts>Reset All
Thats it :) hope that helps
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It woked for me!!! With Ubuntu 10.4 and WINE
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