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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 380

[Solved] What happened to OpenGL (nvidia-settings)... .. .

Running mythfrontend (mythtv)

2021-02-26 09:16:30.603894 C  OpenGL: Failed to create OpenGLContext!
2021-02-26 09:16:30.603913 E  OpenGL: MythRenderOpenGL is not a valid OpenGL rendering context
2021-02-26 09:16:30.603917 I  OpenGL: MythRenderOpenGL closing
2021-02-26 09:16:30.603928 W  OpenGL: Context about to be destroyed
2021-02-26 09:16:30.603980 I  Using the Qt painter. Video playback will not work!

⁓then⁓

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
bash: glxinfo: command not found

⁓and⁓

# pacman -Qii nvidia-utils 
Name            : nvidia-utils
Version         : 460.56-1
Description     : NVIDIA drivers utilities
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : vulkan-driver  opengl-driver  nvidia-libgl
Depends On      : xorg-server  libglvnd  egl-wayland
Optional Deps   : nvidia-settings: configuration tool [installed]
                  xorg-server-devel: nvidia-xconfig
                  opencl-nvidia: OpenCL support [installed]
Required By     : lib32-nvidia-utils  libglvnd  nvidia  nvidia-lts  nvidia-settings
Optional For    : ffmpeg  google-earth-pro  gst-plugins-bad  ksysguard  vulkan-icd-loader
Conflicts With  : nvidia-libgl
Replaces        : nvidia-libgl
Installed Size  : 311.29 MiB
Packager        : Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Thu 25 Feb 2021 08:49:07 AM PST
Install Date    : Fri 26 Feb 2021 08:04:20 AM PST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature
Backup Files    :
(none)

⁓also⁓

$ nvidia-settings  --glxinfo

ERROR: An internal driver error occurred


ERROR: An internal driver error occurred


ERROR: An internal driver error occurred


ERROR: An internal driver error occurred

GLX Information for KISE-005:0.0:
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  151 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  294
  Current serial number in output stream:  295

⁓&⁓

$ sudo pacman -Qii opencl-nvidia
Name            : opencl-nvidia
Version         : 460.56-1
Description     : OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : opencl-driver
Depends On      : zlib
Optional Deps   : opencl-headers: headers necessary for OpenCL development [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : nvidia-utils  ocl-icd
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 64.66 MiB
Packager        : Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Thu 25 Feb 2021 08:49:07 AM PST
Install Date    : Fri 26 Feb 2021 09:36:44 AM PST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature
Backup Files    :
(none)

Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2021-02-26 20:33:36)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,707

Re: [Solved] What happened to OpenGL (nvidia-settings)... .. .

Check/post your xorg log and system logs (e.g. dmesg). Chances are you either have an nvidia <-> nvidia-utils mismatch due to broken mirrors or the usual race condition which can be alleviated via https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting (... in that general direction if you did follow that previously you now see the reason for the pacman hook, as what happened here was an nvidia update without an accompanying kernel update so the modules in your initramfs would not yet be up to date)

keepitsimpleengineer

Member

From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 380

Re: [Solved] What happened to OpenGL (nvidia-settings)... .. .

Check/post your xorg log and system logs (e.g. dmesg). Chances are you either have an nvidia <-> nvidia-utils mismatch due to broken mirrors or the usual race condition which can be alleviated via https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting (... in that general direction if you did follow that previously you now see the reason for the pacman hook, as what happened here was an nvidia update without an accompanying kernel update so the modules in your initramfs would not yet be up to date)

Running '# mkinitcpio -p' and then updating grub did the trick

Thanks for the wiki reference

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Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius