Bug#1116031: nexuiz: Does not start on Vivante GC7000 GPU: GLXBadFBConfig

Ælla Chiana Arson Bobbie Moskopp acab+debian-reportbug at dieweltistgarnichtso.net
Tue Sep 23 20:52:53 BST 2025


Package: darkplaces
Version: 0~20180908~beta1-7
Followup-For: Bug #1116031
X-Debbugs-Cc: acab+debian-reportbug at dieweltistgarnichtso.net

> What versions of OpenGL and OpenGL|ES does that driver implement on this 
> hardware?

; glxinfo -B 
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff)
    Device: Vivante GC7000 rev 6214 (0xffffffff)
    Version: 25.2.2
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 0MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: compat (0x2)
    Max core profile version: 0.0
    Max compat profile version: 2.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 2.0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: Vivante GC7000 rev 6214
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 25.2.2-1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 25.2.2-1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16

> If your CPU is sufficiently new/fast, running with environment variable 
> LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 to avoid relying on the GPU might help.

Starting nexuiz with “LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1” makes the game so laggy that
it is unplayable on my MNT Reform 2 laptop due to frame rates below 10 fps.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 6.16.7-mnt-reform-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages darkplaces depends on:
ii  libc6               2.41-12
ii  libcurl3t64-gnutls  8.16.0-1
ii  libfreetype6        2.13.3+dfsg-1
ii  libgl1              1.7.0-1+b2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo     1:2.1.5-4
ii  libode8t64          2:0.16.6-2
ii  libogg0             1.3.6-1
ii  libpng16-16t64      1.6.50-1
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0       2.32.10+dfsg-4
ii  libtheora1          1.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libvorbis0a         1.3.7-3
ii  libvorbisenc2       1.3.7-3
ii  libvorbisfile3      1.3.7-3
ii  zlib1g              1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1

darkplaces recommends no packages.

darkplaces suggests no packages.

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