Allegro 5.0.3 Fedora 13 x86_64 Tried tutorial 1 from this site:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display = NULL;

if(!al_init()) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to initialize allegro!\n");
return -1;
}

display = al_create_display(640, 480);
if(!display) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create display!\n");
return -1;
}

al_clear_to_color(al_map_rgb(0,0,0));

al_flip_display();

al_rest(10.0);

al_destroy_display(display);

return 0;
}

results:

[dtelford@localhost allegro-5.0.3]$ gcc tutorial1.c -o tutorial1 -lallegro
[dtelford@localhost allegro-5.0.3]$ ./tutorial1
failed to create drawable
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 55 (X_CreateGC)
Resource id in failed request: 0x4e00002
Serial number of failed request: 22
Current serial number in output stream: 24

comments?

I installed Mesa OpenGL and ran the program from

http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Tutorial:_OpenGL_3.0_Context_Creation_(GLX)

[dtelford@localhost allegro-5.0.3]$ g++ gl3.cpp -o gl3 -lGL -lX11
[dtelford@localhost allegro-5.0.3]$ ./gl3
Getting matching framebuffer configs
Found 2 matching FB configs.
Getting XVisualInfos
Matching fbconfig 0, visual ID 0x21: SAMPLE_BUFFERS = 0, SAMPLES = 0
Matching fbconfig 1, visual ID 0xf6: SAMPLE_BUFFERS = 0, SAMPLES = 0
Chosen visual ID = 0x21
Creating colormap
Creating window
Mapping window
glXCreateContextAttribsARB() not found ... using old-style GLX context
Direct GLX rendering context obtained
Making context current

The tutorial explains how to install allegro 5, but doesn't say anything about
OpenGL.

Regards,
Doug

You can try copying allegro5.cfg and changing "config_selection" to "old" in there.