LWJGL reports that OpenGL is not supported on a modern nvidia card

Question

So i have been trying out libgdx for the past day and it works well, until i realized that it only works on my laptop with intel graphics while it instantly shuts down on my desktop with a nvidia 750ti.

According to this github issue, this issue should've already been fixed in this commit.

I also tried what others on older posts have recommended, like here and here (which shouldn't be neccessary anymore since that commit, but worth trying)

System.setProperty("org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.allowSoftwareOpenGL", "true");

But believe it or not, it doesn't work. Here's the stack trace

Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: OpenGL is not supported by the video driver.
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglGraphics.createDisplayPixelFormat(LwjglGraphics.java:229)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglGraphics.setupDisplay(LwjglGraphics.java:174)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:138)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:120)
Caused by: org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: X Error - disp: 0x7f0f4c000c50 serial: 194 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) request_code: 154 minor_code: 24
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.globalErrorHandler(LinuxDisplay.java:320)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxContextImplementation.nCreate(Native Method)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxContextImplementation.create(LinuxContextImplementation.java:51)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.ContextGL.<init>(ContextGL.java:132)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:850)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglGraphics.createDisplayPixelFormat(LwjglGraphics.java:220)
    ... 3 more

When comparing the stack trace to this guy, the cause is aparently not Pixel format is not accelerated rather Caused by: org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: X Error - disp: 0x7f12cc000c50 serial: 194 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) request_code: 154 minor_code: 24. Maybe that's just because i'm running linux and he isn't, i don't know. It does seem wierd though that a integer parameter out of range for operation error would be the reason for LWJGL to think that my video driver doesn't support OpenGL, but that's just a guess.

Here is the exact code that i'm trying to run. I don't think the code is to blame since it works just fine on my laptop, but i've added it here just in case.

Both my laptop and desktop runs up-to-date Arch Linux installs, so the os shouldn't be the issue.

Thanks in advance!

The github issue is for a hardware device that is too old to support LWJGL. I think your case is different. Do any OpenGL apps work for you? (Can you get glxgears working?) — P.T.
Thanks, it was something wrong with OpenGL and a simple restart solved it for me. glxinfo and glxgears simply crashed when i started them. — Johan Bjäreholt

Johan Bjäreholt Johan Bjäreholt · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-05T21:22:31

The solution was pretty simple, thanks P.T. for the help.

I don't know what was wrong, but no OpenGL apps could be run at all actually, and a simple reboot solved the issue for me.

LWJGL reports that OpenGL is not supported on a modern nvidia card

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