I was trying to get steam working on debian testing and i kept getting the glxChooseVisual failed error. After some ducking* i found this thread on the steam forums and thanks to sgtlion i was able to resolve the issue and i can finally get my system up and running again.
So if you encounter this problem, install the i386 version of the nvidia-driver-libs, on debian its:
apt install nvidia-driver-libs-i386
Update 2021: Since i had a reinstall of my testing gaming machine, this time the i386 libs weren’t found with the above name and i haven’t added the arch anyway yet, so:
dpkg --add-architecture i386
but still “Unable to locate package nvidia-driver-libs-i386”
apt install nvidia-driver-libs:i386
worked, i dunno what’s different this time ^^
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*i use duckduckgo as a search engine
You save me man, ty <3
thx, most of answers on this topic are about Ubuntu’s ppa and recommend to install some libnvidia packages. Nvidia-drivers worked. Somehow this website showed up higher in google than the one from steamcommunity mentioned here in 3 different googling attempts
Intentando instalar, me sale el siguiente mensaje.
apt install nvidia-driver-libs-i386
Leyendo lista de paquetes… Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado… Hecho
El paquete nvidia-driver-libs-i386 no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia
a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se
encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente
E: El paquete «nvidia-driver-libs-i386» no tiene un candidato para la instalación
No tengo idea de como instalar esta libreria.
hi, hm i just tried to install the package on my work pc, which runs debian buster and its availaible in the repositories. i will check on my home debian testing machine too.
well, also on my home machine running testing the package is available. maybe you need to change your sources.list and add non-free if u havent yet.
nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386 is already the newest version (440.100-1).you’re welcome mates 🙂
Cool, dude! Really Helpful and Save Me. Thanks!
aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 worked for me