[Question] Unable to run examples, only background windows showing in GL window about example HOT 4 CLOSED

It turns out my Graphics drivers were pretty out of date. When I updated my system the examples started working again. Thanks for your assistance!

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What does go version print?

What does go env print?

Did you do go get -u -v github.com/go-gl/examples/gl21-cube? Do you see any output while doing that?

What's your resolution?

What's your video card?

Is this running inside a virtual machine or a physical machine?

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Thanks for getting back to me. I should also note that I am able to run the gomobile examples without issue. They use openGL ES 2.0, i think. I get the same libEGL warning: failed to create a pipe screen for i965 for all these regular openGL code examples and the gomobile examples. But the gomobiles render the scene. The regular openGL code will display a window, and the screen that was behind the window when it was created. I can move then window around and the window doesn't update.

It seems I'm getting an issue where nothing is being drawn, but having a rough time trying to figure out what is causing that. I have the same issue with both 2.1 and 4.1 go-gl/examples.

I'm running this nativity on my laptop, not in a virtual machine.

$  go version
go version go1.7rc2 linux/amd64

I switched back to Go 1.6.3 and have the same issue.

$ go env
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/jasdel/Workspace/golang"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/home/jasdel/Sources/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/home/jasdel/Sources/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build356810928=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"

The output of the go get:

$ go get -u -v github.com/go-gl/examples/gl21-cube
github.com/go-gl/examples (download)
github.com/go-gl/gl (download)
github.com/go-gl/glfw (download)
github.com/go-gl/gl/v2.1/gl
github.com/go-gl/examples/gl21-cube

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/go-gl/examples/gl21-cube
$ go build
$ ./gl21-cube
libEGL warning: failed to create a pipe screen for i965

My resolution is 1920x1080, and video card is a Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 5200

$ sudo lshw -C video

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Crystal Well Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 08
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:46 memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)

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Glad to hear that, thanks for following up! :)

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