{"id":198,"date":"2019-09-29T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unordnung.net\/?p=198"},"modified":"2021-02-20T01:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T01:53:47","slug":"debian-testing-steam-glxchoosevisual-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/2019\/09\/debian-testing-steam-glxchoosevisual-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian Testing: Steam glXChooseVisual failed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was trying to get steam working on debian testing and i kept getting the glxChooseVisual failed error. After some <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22glxchoosevisual+failed%22+steam&amp;t=ffab&amp;ia=web\">ducking<\/a>* i found<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/221410\/discussions\/0\/648814845231905404?l=portuguese\"> this thread<\/a> on the steam forums and thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/sgtlion\">sgtlion<\/a> i was able to resolve the issue and i can finally get my system up and running again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you encounter this problem, install the i386 version of the nvidia-driver-libs, on debian its:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>apt install nvidia-driver-libs-i386<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update 2021: Since i had a reinstall of my testing gaming machine, this time the i386 libs weren&#8217;t found with the above name and i haven&#8217;t added the arch anyway yet, so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"block-d9c5bab5-453b-460c-927b-5794bcfd78ae\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dpkg --add-architecture i386<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>but still &#8220;Unable to locate package nvidia-driver-libs-i386&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">apt install nvidia-driver-libs:i386<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>worked, i dunno what&#8217;s different this time ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_____<br>*i use duckduckgo as a search engine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"Debian Testing: Steam glXChooseVisual failed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/2019\/09\/debian-testing-steam-glxchoosevisual-failed\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Debian Testing: Steam glXChooseVisual failed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,23,28,46,69],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to_remember","tag-debian","tag-failed","tag-glxchoosevisual","tag-linux","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}