[arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

Heiko Becker heiko.becker at rocketmail.com
Wed Mar 5 14:28:09 EST 2014


Am 05.03.2014 20:24, schrieb Heiko Becker:
>
> Am 05.03.2014 19:54, schrieb Simon Brand:
>> Am 05.03.2014 19:13, schrieb Heiko Becker:
>>> Short Update:
>>>
>>> Clean /home/ gives me:
>>>
>>> Running Steam on arch  64-bit
>>> STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client)
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client)
>>> /home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/tier0/threadtools.cpp 
>>>
>>> (2024) : Assertion Failed: Die Datei existiert bereits
>>> Assert( Assertion Failed: Die Datei existiert bereits
>>> ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/tier0/threadtools.cpp:2024 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client)
>>> Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Heiko
>>>
>> I'd rather think, it is a steam problem. Steam is working fine here,
>> maybe you should contact the steam support.
>>
>> Btw are you sure, it was a clean home? Because "Die Datei existiert
>> bereits" implys, that there was an existing file.
>> You can start steam with strace to see, which file steam is refering to.
>> (or add a real new user)
>>
>
> Hey,
>
> I don't think it is related to steam, as starting mincraft gives me 
> the same error:
> org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not init GLX
>     at 
> org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplayPeerInfo.initDefaultPeerInfo(Native Method)
>     at 
> org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplayPeerInfo.<init>(LinuxDisplayPeerInfo.java:61)
>     at 
> org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.createPeerInfo(LinuxDisplay.java:818)
>     at org.lwjgl.opengl.DrawableGL.setPixelFormat(DrawableGL.java:61)
>     at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:846)
>     at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
>     at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
>     at azl.ad(SourceFile:325)
>     at azl.f(SourceFile:696)
>     at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:148)
>
>
> It was a clean home (for the new user "test") but I had to restart 
> steam since it didn't even show a GUI when launching for the first time.
>
> Could this be solved by installing the catalyst driver? I would then 
> try this although it might impose a lot of work on me as I am running 
> on xorg 1.15...
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Heiko


Some additional info, I forgot:

The minecraft launcher says that it was not able to initialize an OpenGL 
Context, so generally OpenGL seems to be broken although I have all 
libraries installed.

Heiko


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