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childerico

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From: Italy

Registered: 2015-11-18

Posts: 67

[SOLVED] Issues after switching back from NVIDIA drivers to nouveau

Hi, I have a NVIDIA graphics card that requires the nvidia-340xx driver. Following the release of xorg-server 1.20, I decided to switch back to nouveau drivers, as NVIDIA support for that card is going to end soon or later anyway.

I am currently running nouveau driver, apparently with no issues. However, I tried to launch a game for testing and I discovered it won't start. If a try to run glxgears, I get the same error:

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  23
  Current serial number in output stream:  24

I have not seen any additional error messages in the logs.
The problem seems to be related to OpenGL, but I am wondering whether it is due to my wrong configuration (and can be fixed), or a compatibility issue with my card. Any suggestions?

Thank you!

Last edited by childerico (2018-05-22 14:17:25)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,056

Re: [SOLVED] Issues after switching back from NVIDIA drivers to nouveau

pacman -Qs nvidia
pacman -Qs mesa

and your xorg log (though most likely you didn't replace nvidia-utils with mesa)

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childerico

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From: Italy

Registered: 2015-11-18

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED] Issues after switching back from NVIDIA drivers to nouveau

Thank you very much. Indeed, the issue was caused by having nvidia-340xx-utils installed.