success.
i rebuilt w/o cg support and ran into the problem described in this thread:
discourse.panda3d.org/viewtopic.php?t=5036
after setting up my PRC_PATH and adding the plugin-path directive to the Config.prc, everything worked fine.
so i went back and built with cg and i’m now able to open a window. ironically, i can’t really test functionality of the cg bits because i have an ati card.
incidentally, where can i find more information on this plugin-path change?
jeremy