OpenGL: ChoosePixelFormat failed

[karlhutt]

thanks a lot! it worked! ujuuu!

[madeinwales]

This post is a little old but I decided to add some input to it since it might help some else trying to run Sketchup7 on Karmic Koala 9.10.

It is always better to download the last version of wine from their site since the Ubuntu repository is a little outdated.

The version wine version that is working for me is 1.1.43.

The fix is real simple:

Fix:
Open your wine menu and open the C drive (/home/user/.Wine)
Open the Windows Folder
Find Regedit.exe and run it with Wine
Find: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6\GLConf ig\Display
There are three entries - Look at the bottom one, name 'HW_OK"
Double click it and change the data from a 0 to a 1
Run Sketchup7

that should do it. I read some postings mentioning problems with black screens, which are related to compiz; in that case just disable compiz.

I hope this can help someone. I've been trying get Sketchup running for the longest time, I finally got it working with this little trick.

good luck

Can I just add that this solution also works for SU8 on Linux Mint 12 with Wine 1.3.28.

many thanks

[pg-rugby]

A thousand thanks for this tip. Worked like a charm. I am running Wine 1.4 on lubuntu 12.04, with SketchUp 8.

[Vitosław]

Thank you noriegafam. I used your advice with Wine 1.4 and Sketchup 8.0.
It works!

[Cicer]

Worked for me, too, thanks! In case you need everything spelled out (like I did), here's how to run regedit.exe from terminal.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows
wine regedit.exe

[boris_1981]

Thanks!!

FYI to all, im running:
Wine 1.4.1
Google Sketchup 8
Ubuntu 12.10

[justb13]

Thank you. Much appreciated.
This worked for me as well.
I am using Ubuntu version 12.04
Wine 1.5
Sketchup 8
Amd 64 bit processor.

[Elaphe]

Hello everyone!

I know this is digging up an old thread, but I'm having the same problem as the OP, but can not seem to get through the fix, and I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me. To summarise, I am trying to install and run Google SketchUp 8 under Wine (not sure the Wine version) on my HP ProBook 4430s laptop with a Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPU and Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit. I have SketchUp installed, and it launches, but when I try to use SketchUp it fails and gives the error, "SketchUp was unable to initialize OpenGL....." I'm trying to follow the fix posted here, but when I run the regedit.exe file I cannot find a directory called "Google" under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software, so I can go no further. Can someone help me with this please?

Thank you for your help!

-Elaphe