GLX is compiled with wrong version (Display resolution and hardware acceleration stopped working)

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I have two Ubuntu 14 Desktops (identical). Both were working fine until Friday. Some updates appear to have been performed on the non-working machine...

2019-03-18 02:29:32 install linux-base:all <keine> 4.5ubuntu1~14.04.1
2019-03-18 02:29:32 install linux-modules-3.13.0-167-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0-167.217
2019-03-18 02:29:33 install linux-image-3.13.0-167-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0-167.217
2019-03-18 02:29:33 install linux-modules-extra-3.13.0-167-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0-167.217
2019-03-18 02:29:36 install linux-image-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0.167.178
2019-03-18 02:29:36 install linux-headers-3.13.0-167:all <keine> 3.13.0-167.217
2019-03-18 02:29:38 install linux-headers-3.13.0-167-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0-167.217
2019-03-18 02:29:39 install linux-headers-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0.167.178
2019-03-18 02:29:39 install linux-generic:amd64 <keine> 3.13.0.167.178
2019-03-18 02:29:39 install linux-modules-4.4.0-143-generic:amd64 <keine> 4.4.0-143.169~14.04.2
2019-03-18 02:29:40 install linux-image-4.4.0-143-generic:amd64 <keine> 4.4.0-143.169~14.04.2
2019-03-18 02:29:40 install linux-modules-extra-4.4.0-143-generic:amd64 <keine> 4.4.0-143.169~14.04.2
2019-03-18 02:29:44 install linux-headers-4.4.0-143:all <keine> 4.4.0-143.169~14.04.2
2019-03-18 02:29:46 install linux-headers-4.4.0-143-generic:amd64 <keine> 4.4.0-143.169~14.04.2

Now the display resolution (and apparently the hardware acceleration) are not working on the broken machine. Using glxgears shows the following error...

lshw shows the Nvidia card as UNattached (please excuse the German)

*-display UNGEFORDERT
     Beschreibung: VGA compatible controller
     Produkt: NVIDIA Corporation
     Hersteller: NVIDIA Corporation
     Physische ID: 0
     Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:01:00.0
     Version: a1
     Breite: 64 bits
     Takt: 33MHz
     Fähigkeiten: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
     Konfiguration: latency=0
     Ressourcen: memory:de000000-deffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:e000(Größe=128) memory:df000000-df07ffff

And the /var/log/Xorg.o.log shows that different GLX modules are being called (glxserver_nvidia versus libglx.so)...

Working machine

[ 99380.611] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[ 99380.611] (II) Loading sub module "glxserver_nvidia"
[ 99380.611] (II) LoadModule: "glxserver_nvidia"
[ 99380.611] (II) Loading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/libglxserver_nvidia.so
[ 99380.633] (II) Module glxserver_nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 99380.633]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 99380.633]    Module class: X.Org Server Extension

NON-WORKING MACHINE

[  1042.464] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
[  1042.464] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[  1042.465] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[  1042.489] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  1042.490]    compiled for 1.18.3, module version = 1.0.0
[  1042.490]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 9.0

I've reinstalled all the original drivers...

apt-get --reinstall install nvidia-410 nvidia-410-dev nvidia-modprobe nvidia-opencl-icd-410 nvidia-settings
apt --reinstall install libxcb-glx0 libxcb-glx0-dev
apt install libcudnn5 libcudnn5-dev -y

My Google'ing hasn't given me any direction towardsinstalling glxserver_nvidia

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 16 '19 at 14:52

From my experience, if glxserver_nvidia is not loaded, it's because the xserver consider the nvidia graphics card is not using (for instance, not connected to a monitor).

I used to face the same problem on my server. I fixed it by using nvidia-xconfig to attach virtual monitors to my nvidia graphic cards.

GLX is compiled with wrong version (Display resolution and hardware acceleration stopped working)

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