On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, "Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes:
> > Any suggestions for how to debug the following steam error?  It happens
> > on a AMD64 architecture system running Debian/Jessie with NVidia
> > graphics hardware.
> > 
> > $ steam
> > Running Steam on debian 8 64-bit
> > STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
> > Installing breakpad exception handler for
> > appid(steam)/version(1424305157) libGL error: unable to load driver:
> > nouveau_dri.so
> 
> That's from libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64:
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
> 
> Is that package installed?
> It's usually a Recommends, not a Depends, so you might not.

$ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
-rw-r--r--. 7 root root 8195824 Oct 27 22:44 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so

It's installed.

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds like an incomplete installation of the NVIDIA driver.  Or possibly a
> system update was performed post–driver installation.
> 
> The NVIDIA driver ships its own version of libGL that is incompatible with
> the Mesa version shipped by default with your distro.  I wouldn't expect
> the NVIDIA–shipped libGL to be trying to load anything nouveau–related.
> 
> If you install the driver from repositories (e.g. apt-get install
> nvidia-driver) then this is all handled for you with update-alternatives,
> but if you manually install a driver from nvidia.com you run into all
> sorts of problems like the above.

That system has never had a non-free driver installed or attempted to be 
installed.

Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think I have those problems.

$ dpkg -l "nvidia*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un  nvidia-va-driv <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-vdpau-d <none>       <none>       (no description available)

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