Hey, a Little Help please?

[Syego]

Hey, my name is Scoutt Swagg, and I need help with running steam on my crappy Dell Dimension 3000 using Ubuntu Linux for when Im at my Dad's house because I would like to trade and chat and when I run Steam it gives me an Open GLX error. please Help.

[Triforce of Charmanders]

Hey, my name is Scoutt Swagg, and I need help with running steam on my crappy Dell Dimension 3000 using Ubuntu Linux for when Im at my Dad's house because I would like to trade and chat and when I run Steam it gives me an Open GLX error. please Help.

Just use steam offers. 

[Pyrocide]

ASSUMING YOU HAVE A NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARD

 

Dont use the steam provided nvidia driver. Download manually from nvidia.

 

reboot machine > login > open terminal

sudo service lightdm stop
#Kills X Server
cd <download directory of driver>
#Moves working directory to where you downloaded the driver
sudo chmod +x <nvidia driver name>.run
#Makes the driver executable
sudo ./<nvidia driver name>.run
#Runs the driver install

blacklist nouveau driver when driver install asks

Overwrite/uninstall existing driver

Install 32-bit compat libs if you are on x64
reboot

open a terminal run glxgears. If you are getting 60frames and you saw the nvidia logo flashed when loading gui you shouldn't have any more problems with opengl and steam.

 

If you have an ATI card, up a creek without a paddle and GL getting drivers to work. lol

 

Just in case you are not sure of what card.

sudo lspci -v

Look for the line that says

VGA compatible controller

Just to make sure, if you are on x64, make sure you have the 32-bit libs and deps for steam.