On Qui, 2013-01-03 at 16:54 -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Sérgio Basto <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Qui, 2013-01-03 at 16:24 -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > > With the steam beta release for Linux, I am pretty excited > about > > playing games under Linux again. > > > > However, it would appear to require the newer nvidia 310 > drivers. > > > > Are there any plans to update these for Fedora 17 from > rpmfusion? > > > > Michael > > > Hi, > yeah , I also upgrade all my graphics drives, X11, Mesa, etc > to try > steam, but after other announcement, I find out that is not > necessary (I > do a yum distribution-synchronization) and works with F17 > drives but I > have an Intel, see if is the same in your case: > > http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=games&package=steam > > cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ > wget > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/games.repo > yum install steam > > > > Thanks Sergio for the response. > > > I also have used the opensuse packages to install Steam. > > > When I try to run steam I get the following error: > > > PROBLEM: You appear to have OpenGL 1.4.0, but we need at least 2.0.0! > Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glGetError'! Either your > video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated. > > > Looking on line, these appear to be offered by the nvidia 310.19 or > never version. rpmfusion is currently providing 304. > On my nvidia test computer which have F18, I got OpenGL 2.1.2 with NVIDIA 304
glxinfo | grep -i opengl OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6500/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.64 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler OpenGL extensions: I going test it now, I will write something if can't install it. -- Sérgio M. B.
