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Trappedindreams

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Registered: 2020-08-12

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Failed to load driver swrast. OpenGL 3.3 required while it's present.

I'm trying to run blender beta (from AUR package blender-git) but I get the following error:

Read prefs: /home/username/.config/blender/2.91/config/userpref.blend
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Error! Unsupported graphics card or driver.
A graphics card and driver with support for OpenGL 3.3 or higher is required.
The program will now close.
Error: Not freed memory blocks: 14637, total unfreed memory 5.420147 MB

But my graphics card (nvidia GeForce 8500GT) does support OpenGL 3.3

$ glxinfo | grep opengl
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8500 GT/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108
OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 NVIDIA 340.108 340.108
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

I'm using nvidia proprietary driver v340 (from AUR package nvidia-340xx-dkms). I tried googling but couldn't find a solution. I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with this.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: Failed to load driver swrast. OpenGL 3.3 required while it's present.

Moving to AUR issues.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,846

Re: Failed to load driver swrast. OpenGL 3.3 required while it's present.

But my graphics card (nvidia GeForce 8500GT) does support OpenGL 3.3

Blender 2.83.4.1 requirements state it needs geforce 400 or later.
Your card is from the geforce 8 series that precedes geforce 400 by about 4 years.

Maybe try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender-2.7/ ?

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