# Error running boing

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/error-running-boing/352>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [July 1, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/error-running-boing/352 "2005-07-01T10:44:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/error-running-boing/352/1 "2005-07-01T10:44:09Z")

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**[huffton](https://sourceforge.net/u/huffton/)** wrote on [Friday, July 01, 2005](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/1d45fdc0/#9cc3):

I am running Ubuntu Hoary, which uses [x.org](http://x.org).

I can compile glfw and all the examples work apart from boing. That fails:

$ ./boing  
X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest  
Major opcode of failed request: 145 (GLX)  
Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X\_GLXVendorPrivate)  
Serial number of failed request: 38  
Current serial number in output stream: 41  
$

Any ideas?

Cheers

PaulH

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/error-running-boing/352/2 "2005-08-28T13:50:59Z")

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**nobody** wrote on [Sunday, August 28, 2005](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/1d45fdc0/#9cc3/5c55):

I’m getting this error with my own applications too. The program fails on glfwOpenWindow(); function. But sometimes it’s works fine :-\