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Hi,

When I run Minecraft on Ubuntu 12.04.1, I am able to log in and update, but then Minecraft proceeds to display a black screen then a crash dialogue. Here is the output from the crash log file.

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.
Time: 11/01/13 1:07 AM
Description: Failed to start game
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not init GLX
at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplayPeerInfo.initDefaultPeerInfo(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplayPeerInfo.<init>(LinuxDisplayPeerInfo.java:61)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.createPeerInfo(LinuxDisplay.java:782)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.DrawableGL.setPixelFormat(DrawableGL.java:61)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:871)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:782)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:764)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:232)
at asq.a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.7
Operating System: Linux (i386) version 3.2.0-35-generic-pae
Java Version: 1.7.0_10, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 33776552 bytes (32 MB) / 64356352 bytes (61 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 MB)
JVM Flags: 0 total;
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: No suspicious classes found.
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
LWJGL: 2.8.3
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Texture Pack: Default
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

Here is the output from lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 540M] (rev ff)

So far I've been led to the conclustion that I need to install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, but none of them have worked as of yet. Has anyone encountered this problem and been able to fix it?

Quote from Tedster

Yeeeaahhh...

Try disabling you i3/i5/i7's integrated graphics and possibly update LWJGL.

I've already attempted updating LWJGL to no avail, I'll attempt disabling my i5 driver and report back.

Quote from epikal

Has it ever worked?
Have a look at Bumblebee, this will enable Optimus switching as you get under Windows:
Bumblebee Project

This did the trick! I actually installed Bumblebee before reading this post, and it seemed to not work.. this morning I woke up, read this post, and thought "I can't remember the error message.. I should run it again to give him the output." Much to my surprise, "optirun java -jar minecraft.jar" works like a charm!

Quote from Syfaro

The only fix in aware of is using Mint, instead of Ubuntu. Never could get the nVidia drivers working on Ubuntu, they worked nearly out of the box on Mint (it installs them for you, too). Perhaps just try running it live and see if it works there.

I might still try this suggestion however. I've always enjoyed the look and feel of Mint, and if it runs Minecraft more smoothly.. well then that's more than enough reason for me to make the switch

I just installed Mint 14 Cinnamon on a Toshiba Satelite with an A8-3800M. I did have to futz around with different fglrx packages from the various repos to get rid of the artifacts and screen tearing. Funny enough the ATI/AMD catalyst drivers would not load at all. The open source ones work fine, glxinfo even reports the GL vendor as ATI lol.

MC runs great. I even installed steam, Adobe AIR 2.6, the Pandora One desktop player and Chromium (Chrome browser). Wireless, bluetooth, sound and everything worked right off the bat. I can't recommend Mint enough.

One niggling thing, it still won't launch from the desktop launcher I made for it... the command is 'java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp ~sando/minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame' which works from the terminal, but not the launcher? No idea.

Update:

For some stupid reason 'java -jar ~sando/minecraft.jar' in the launcher works. Even 'exec java -cp ~sando/minecraft.jar' wouldn't work. So damn weird. Oh well.

Oh, and try the nvidia-experimental-304 package from restricted if you haven't already. Should support your card and work pretty well.