Bug 375679

Summary:	Starting Kwin with NVidia Proprietary drivers / libraries throws: "Plasma is unable to start as it could not correctly use OpenGL 2."
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Christian <christian_burger>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical	CC:	bshah, christian_burger, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	christian_burger: Wayland- christian_burger: X11+ christian_burger: VisualDesign-
Version First Reported In:	5.8.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Christian 2017-01-28 19:30:37 UTC

This happens every time and it's NOT an issue with opencl/opengl libraries, NVidia's proprietary driver or underlying hardware capabilities, it's a BUG in the check which is done prior to launching Kwin.
The same configuration and libraries are working great when running other Desktop Environments while using the same libraries and drivers. 
i.e. I can run World of Warcraft flawlessly with wine with opengl-3.1 from LxQT.

You can see more complaints here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1048616-start-0.html

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2017-01-28 19:34:02 UTC

This check is not done by KWin

Comment 2 Christian 2017-01-29 20:27:05 UTC

(In reply to Martin Gräßlin from comment #1)
> This check is not done by KWin
Yes, you're right, this check is done in:
void ShellCorona::showOpenGLNotCompatibleWarning() {
...
plasma-workspace/shell/shellcorona.cpp:1998
...

I'll try to reassign the bug to their area.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2017-01-30 10:46:01 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 375730 ***