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Nathel

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Registered: 2014-07-11

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Can't get Steam to work, VirtualBox installation

Hello!

I'm having problems with getting Steam to work on my Arch Linux installation. I'm new to Linux so I'll just give you a prehistory & console output. I installed the distro on a virtual machine created in VirtualBox, installed xorg & KDE, I didn't install any video drivers because this is what wiki says:

Note: You do not need to also install a specific video driver in the guest system. Install the Guest Additions instead.

So I installed "virtualbox-guest-utils" package, created a file /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf with the following contents:

vboxguest
vboxsf
vboxvideo

Then I executed

sudo systemctl enable vboxservice

and rebooted the system. After the reboot I got the shared clipboard feature working => VBox Guest Additions seemed to work. Then I installed "steam" package, launched it via the terminal and waited for it to download it's updated. After Steam downloaded everything, I tried to launch it once again via terminal and got this:

Running Steam on arch  64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1405013548_client)
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1405013548_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1405013548_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1405013548_client)
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
OpenGL GLX extension not supported by displayAssert( Assertion Failed: Fatal Error: OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/steamUI/Main.cpp:285

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1405013548_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20140712040049_6.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-e2313069-9637-4ef3-aeee-fe3b92140711

and a GUI window saying "OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display". I tried to find a solution on the internet but they all mentioned installing Nvidia drivers. And VirtualBox GPU != Nvidia GPU.
Is there any way to solve this? Steam is working on my Fedora-VBox (this is the distro our lecturer uses as an example to teach us about Linux) installation out of the box.

EDIT: forgot to mention that system is x86_64, multilib in enabled, 3D acceleration in VM settings is enabled.

Last edited by Nathel (2014-07-12 22:10:16)

Nathel

Member

Registered: 2014-07-11

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Steam to work, VirtualBox installation

Fixed the issue by replacing nvidia-libgl with mesa-libgl & lib32-mesa-libgl.