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HerrSubset

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Registered: 2016-06-26

Posts: 2

GLX issue with Nvidia drivers

Hi,

when trying to install steam according to the steps on the wiki, I get the error "OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display". It has always worked fine before, no idea what's wrong this time. I've found some other forum posts with people who have similar problems, but none seem to be of any use to me. I hope someone can point me in the right direction of where to look.

I've put the steam error, Xorg.0.log and the output of glxinfo on pastebin.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: GLX issue with Nvidia drivers

[     5.234] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0166:1043:124d rev 9, Mem @ 0xf7400000/4194304, 0xd0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x0000f000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[     5.234] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:1298:1043:124d rev 161, Mem @ 0xf6000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288

You have an Optimus setup, read through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus if you intend to only use the Nvidia Card or through  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee to take advantage of the low power consumption of the integrated card and only use the dedicated card when needed

HerrSubset

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Registered: 2016-06-26

Posts: 2

Re: GLX issue with Nvidia drivers

Thank you very much, somehow I never realized that I have an optimus setup. I thought they were a separate line of graphics cards (of which I didn't have one).

Last edited by HerrSubset (2016-06-29 18:09:02)