You have been subscribed to a public bug: After updates which took place during the last several days, several OpenGL commercial games stopped recognising GLX and would not load. This happens on gnome-shell and unity, with nvidia-current and nvidia 173.
Lugaru says: SDL_SetVideoMode() failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual forcing 640x480... Atom Zombie Smasher says: X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 8 (X_MapWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 32 Current serial number in output stream: 34 X-Plane says: Whoah -- no matter how hard I tried, I failed to get a GLX visual. Something's seriously wonky on your machine. And Yet It Moves says: Could not find a compatible OpenGL display resolution. Please check your driver configuration. (Error: Couldn't find matching GLX visual) Aquaria says: Message: Couldn't set resolution [1280x800] Couldn't find matching GLX visual ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0' .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.1: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/1' .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: "" .proc.driver.nvidia.version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 16:53:56 PDT 2011 GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,mousepoll,resize,regex,vpswitch,wall,place,unitymtgrabhandles,move,wobbly,session,animation,scale,workarounds,expo,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: None Date: Sun Sep 18 01:01:35 2011 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-08-29 17:40:27.834407 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] [10de:06e8] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0271] nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M G] [10de:0866] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0271] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1) MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio XPS 1340 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=eb46fc15-d83a-490d-b085-d4b98ff0e167 ro vga=792 splash ipv6.disable=1 quiet quiet nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x1024-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-29 (19 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 04/08/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0K183D dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A15 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A15 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd04/08/2011:svnDellInc.:pnStudioXPS1340:pvrA15:rvnDellInc.:rn0K183D:rvrA15:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA15: dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 1340 dmi.product.version: A15 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.94+bzr2803-0ubuntu5 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu22 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric ubuntu -- GLX is broken for several commercial OpenGL games https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/852873 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs