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I just created a new Xubuntu 15.10 PC and then I added java8 and loaded the minecraft.jar file from your site.

The launcher starts up with no problems, but the game window comes up and is all white. No text or graphics.

I can hear the game music playing, but I see no options for creating my first world.

Here is my graphics info:

$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV34
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 11.0.2
OpenGL extensions:

Here is my graphics hardware:

sudo lshw -c video

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: [email protected]:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:fe9e0000-fe9fffff

My graphics card calls for me to use the nvidia-173 driver for this old card, but that driver is not available in the apt-cache for Xubuntu 15.10

Here is my output log file. I am not showing the entire log because it just repeats itself.

[11:34:10] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Pappo46
[11:34:11] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is token:08bddf25f4c8439cbbb286133f
cecc79:76b63f61076f41b3b7193e32b388fddf)
[11:34:16] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.4
[11:34:17] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default
[11:34:17] [Client thread/ERROR]: Couldn't initialize twitch stream
[11:34:17] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem...
[11:34:18] [Thread-6/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[11:34:18] [Thread-6/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information,
see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[11:34:18] [Thread-6/INFO]: OpenAL initialized.
[11:34:18] [Client thread/ERROR]: ########## GL ERROR ##########
[11:34:18] [Client thread/ERROR]: @ Pre startup
[11:34:18] [Client thread/ERROR]: 1281: Invalid value
[11:34:18] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[11:34:23] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 512x512 textures-atlas
[11:34:25] [Client thread/ERROR]: ########## GL ERROR ##########
[11:34:25] [Client thread/ERROR]: @ Pre render
[11:34:25] [Client thread/ERROR]: 1281: Invalid value
[11:34:26] [Client thread/ERROR]: ########## GL ERROR ##########
[11:34:26] [Client thread/ERROR]: @ Post render
[11:34:26] [Client thread/ERROR]: 1286: Invalid framebuffer operation
[11:34:26] [Client thread/ERROR]: ########## GL ERROR ##########
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Thanks grimallq, for the response. You are correct about the system being ancient. It has an ASUS P4P800 motherboard which first released in 2003....LOL

The old system was a gift from my son's garage. I have had to go back to Xubuntu 14.04.1 to have Ubuntu apt-cache show me the nvidia-173 driver be available.

I installed 14.04.1, and nvidia-173 driver, and now Minecraft login window appears.

It is slower than molasses in January, probably because it only has 2GB of RAM now. I have 2GB more I will install tomorrow.

This has really been just a project to see if old hardware would run it, and to give me a way to have two PC's at home, to play Minecraft when my granddaughter visits. Normally, she plays it alone on my Alienware M17 laptop, but I was hoping to have two machines so we could link up on the home network.