trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
RC> Any suggestions for how to debug the following steam error?
JV> The NVIDIA driver ships its own version of libGL that is incompatible JV> with the Mesa version shipped by default with your distro. I JV> wouldn't expect the NVIDIA–shipped libGL to be trying to load JV> anything nouveau–related.
RC> That system has never had a non-free driver installed or attempted RC> to be installed. RC> RC> Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think I have those problems.
Maybe your steam binary is less picky about non-free software. It's not from Debian, so it can violate Debian Policy. It wouldn't surprise me *at all* if steam never works with nouveau.
New theory: you have the nouveau_dri.so for amd64, but not for i386, and steam is all 32-bit.