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newbienewb

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[SOLVED] openGL Installation seems to be broken on Arch Linux install

Hi guys. As the title states, OpenGL seems to be broken on my relatively fresh Arch Linux installation.

Having followed the relevant wiki-page, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenGL, here is the output of 'glxinfo | grep OpenGL':

OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (ADL GT2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 22.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 22.2.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

I am on a Dell XPS 9320.

I discovered the break because glxgears, league of legends and steam client all exhibit the same behaviour: they kind of flicker and freeze in the same fashion. I can provide a gif or video if necessary. My window manager is dwm.

I also have both the relevant openGL (mesa) and vulkan-intel drivers installed. Unsure if conflicting. If anyone could give any hints at what logs I should be looking at or has any idea what could be causing this faulty opengl install, I'd appreciate it!

Last edited by newbienewb (2022-10-30 19:57:53)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] openGL Installation seems to be broken on Arch Linux install

Are you using the modesetting or the intel DDX (xorg vid driver)?

newbienewb

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Re: [SOLVED] openGL Installation seems to be broken on Arch Linux install

I have xf86-video-intel installed if that is the intel DDX driver? I believe this means I'm not using modesetting?

pacman -Qi xf86-video-intel
Name            : xf86-video-intel
Version         : 1:2.99.917+916+g31486f40-2
Description     : X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://01.org/linuxgraphics
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : xorg-drivers
Provides        : xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-intel-sna
Depends On      : mesa  libxvmc  pixman  xcb-util>=0.3.9  systemd-libs
Optional Deps   : libxrandr: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                  libxinerama: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                  libxcursor: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                  libxtst: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                  libxss: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : xorg-server<21.1.1  X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<25  X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=26  xf86-video-intel-sna
                  xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-i810  xf86-video-intel-legacy
Replaces        : xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-intel-sna
Installed Size  : 2.16 MiB
Packager        : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sun 07 Nov 2021 11:00:37 AM GMT
Install Date    : Fri 28 Oct 2022 09:55:41 PM BST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

Last edited by newbienewb (2022-10-30 18:02:31)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] openGL Installation seems to be broken on Arch Linux install

Yes, get rid of that driver and watch out for (and likewise remove) residual config references: "grep -ri intel /{etc,usr/share}/X11/xorg.conf*"
Then see what happens.

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newbienewb

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Re: [SOLVED] openGL Installation seems to be broken on Arch Linux install

Thanks, that worked! There were no residual configs.