After the driver is installed, restart your machine: If you already have an install script from an older NVIDIA driver, simply run the NVIDIA driver install script as oulined above, but with the “–update” option: This will get you the most up-to-date version of the driver. Doing this fixed my libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast error.
What are the errors in glxgears libGL?
$ glxgears libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 153 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 33 Current serial number in output stream: 35
What OpenGL library is libGL_debug trying to load?
With LIBGL_DEBUG it should tell you what OpenGL library it’s trying to load. Furthermore the lib it will be trying to load will almost certainly be /usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 (Edit: This was the standard OpenGL library on my machine at the time I answered this.
How to get rid of swrast error in Nvidia drivers?
To provide an alternative to Adrian’s answer: if you prefer to use proprietary drivers sourced directly from NVIDIA instead of those found in a PPA, installing (or in my case, re-installing) the latest proprietary driver can help eliminate the swrast error. If you don’t have the NVIDIA driver yet, download the driver from NVIDIA’s website.
Is swrast the solution to system updates?
It’s not the solution – not use system’s update… The swrast thing is the software renderer. That means it’s not finding the hardware driver for your graphics card. There are a bunch of libGL libraries installed and a bunch of of symbolic links to those libraries.
