Comment 12 for bug 250931

I find the openstreetmap editor JOSM amazingly slow at times e.g. taking 5 seconds to respond to a mouse click. It is possible that some JOSM functions are slow, or the JVM itself is slow, but my suspicion was that the software rendering might be to blame.

When I start JOSM with "java -Dsun.java2d.opengl=True -jar ~/osm/josm-latest.jar"
I get the error: "Could not enable OpenGL pipeline for default config on screen 0".

This occurs in Ubuntu Jaunty with all latest patches, running on a Thinkpad T42p with "ATI FireGL Mobility T2 (M10) NT (AGP)" chipset (i.e. mobile Radeon 9600). Other standard GLX/DRI 3D applications work, but trying to enable 2D OpenGL acceleration for Java does not.

I wonder if the other posters in this bug are seeing the same error enabling the Java OpenGL pipeline?