** Description changed: Let me lay out my steps for you. Starting with the minimal build, I have 238 packages. Pretty sick. So I proceed to build the system I want with wicd, i3, and nvidia-375. This is where the problems are. i3 doesn't start any OpenGL environment by itself. I install mesa-utils and mesa-common-dev and that doesn't start anything either. When I do glxinfo in i3 it just says could not find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig. When I start steam it says openglx extension not supported by display. I know, i3 is just a window manager. But my extent of linux and Ubuntu knowledge are running out. Side tangent - If I install gnome-core, or gnome and gnome-shell, and reboot into i3 this problem disappears. Its like gnome installs something and runs something that I can't track down. But when gnome installs it, obviously, installs like 1000 packages with it, and that is (kind of) against what I'm going for. When I remove gnome / gnome-core / gnome-shell, and then autoremove other packages, it DOES NOT break i3, it still starts the OpenGL "whatever it is I need" and that is cool. But I still have a ton of gnome packages that the system is using and did not autoremove. I'm trying to get down under 1000. My best is 1012 packages. - - Answer: the GLX extension isn't loading because... No xorg.conf and no gpu-manager.conf files exist. - + Answer: the GLX extension isn't loading because... No xorg.conf and no + gpu-manager.conf files exist. SOLUTION - nvidia needs to install 2 files, + nvidia needs to install 2 files, AND user needs to install ubuntu- + drivers-common /etc/X11/xorg.conf - /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf + /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf (this file is created by gpu-manager + installed by ubuntu-drivers-common) The following is the contents of my files, for those of you running optimus systems with hybrid graphics. For those searching, I am running a G551, aka Asus ROG GL551 etc... with Nvidia 960m So here is how you fix it. You need those two files. Here are mine: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout" Screen 0 "nvidia" Inactive "intel" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "intel" Driver "modesetting" BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0" Option "AccelMethod" "None" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "intel" Device "intel" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nvidia" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0" Option "ConstrainCursor" "off" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "nvidia" Device "nvidia" Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on" Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT" EndSection /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf start on (starting lightdm or starting gdm or starting kdm or starting xdm or starting lxdm) task exec gpu-manager --log /var/log/gpu-manager.log ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: nvidia-375 375.66-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: i3 Date: Sun May 14 20:25:59 2017 SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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