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RaptorAnon

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Registered: 2014-03-16

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steam games wont launch

tried launching "The Plan" after installing it with steam and it just opens a window with a black screen and immediately closes. I checked some other places for a solution and they asked a guy to see if

 grep -i nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log 

returned anything. For the asker it didn't. BUt for me it did here is the output.

 [   254.526] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 2
[   254.527] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[   254.527] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[   254.527] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[   254.531] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check
your
[   254.531] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
[   254.531] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[   254.531] (II) Unloading nvidia
[   254.531] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)

I have no idea what's wrong. I do have mesa lib32 installed. I also have glxinfo32 installed. I don't know where to go from here

Nvidia GEFORCE 310M cuda for laptop
Intal core i5

my laptop is an asus a42j

Last edited by RaptorAnon (2014-03-23 20:16:34)

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DarkCerberus

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Re: steam games wont launch

What about the Open Source drivers aka Xorg - have you tried using them without the proprietary Nvidia card drivers. It may solve your issue.

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blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: steam games wont launch

Do other games on Steam work for you?

Do you have lib32-nvidia-libgl installed?

Do a pacman -Qs nvidia and post it here.

RaptorAnon

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Re: steam games wont launch

sorry for the late reply
I installed lib32-nvidia-libgl
I do have opensource drivers installes and here is the output of pacman -Qs nvidia

 # pacman -Qs nvidia
local/lib32-nvidia-libgl 334.21-5
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 334.21-5
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 0.7-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.10-2 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    Open Source 2D acceleration driver for nVidia card 

Last edited by RaptorAnon (2014-03-23 20:14:22)

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WorMzy

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Re: steam games wont launch

I might be wrong, but I don't think you can mix 32-bit binary drivers and 64-bit mesa drivers. You're getting that error in your X log because you don't have the binary driver installed (you're using mesa+nouveau).

I think you should consider switching to the propriety drivers if you want to play games.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

Alternatively, if you want to use the open source drivers, install lib32-mesa-libgl and lib32-nouveau-dri.

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blackout23

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Re: steam games wont launch

I might be wrong, but I don't think you can mix 32-bit binary drivers and 64-bit mesa drivers. You're getting that error in your X log because you don't have the binary driver installed (you're using mesa+nouveau).

I think you should consider switching to the propriety drivers if you want to play games.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

Alternatively, if you want to use the open source drivers, install lib32-mesa-libgl and lib32-nouveau-dri.

That right you either use nouveau+mesa or nvidia.

local/lib32-nvidia-libgl 334.21-5
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 334.21-5
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/nvidia 334.21-2
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-libgl 334.21-5
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks
local/nvidia-utils 334.21-5
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

These are the NVIDIA 64 and 32 Bit driver packages for kernel module, utils and GL files. If you want to play steam games you can forget nouveau anyway (shitty performance).

Last edited by blackout23 (2014-03-23 21:30:10)

RaptorAnon

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Re: steam games wont launch

I have still been unable to install the proprietary drivers. Could it be that my graphics card model just isn't supported by the drivers?

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