OpenGL 3.3 drivers?

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I’ve installed the kitty terminal on my 10 year old acer laptop (on which endeavourOS generally runs beautifully), and when I try to run it I get this error:

[311 14:30:43.105868] [glfw error 65543]: GLX: Failed to create context: GLXBadFBConfig
[311 14:30:43.105937] Failed to create GLFW temp window! This usually happens because of old/broken OpenGL drivers. kitty requires working OpenGL 3.3 drivers.

Any tips on if/how it’ll be possible to resolve this? inxi -G gives me the following:

Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: ALi type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
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Just guessing because I’m not using kitty, but maybe package glfw-x11 needs to be installed? Or maybe it is an outdated version?

First I’d do sudo pacman -Syyu

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Thanks, I tried it but I still get the same result. I suspect this is a deeper issue relating to the very old machine/graphics card. I just installed it on my only 5-yr old manjaro desktop and it runs without any problem.

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I just installed kitty and it runs OK without any error messages.

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KDE?

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kitty

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:sweat_smile: and you run kitty directly with startx, without a Desktop Environment on what it is running?
It could be that compositor of the DE is running on another version of openGL as KDE is doing per default…

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Ah! On the machine that’s giving me trouble I’m running openbox with picom. On my other machine, where kitty seems to work fine, I’m running i3 + picom.

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picom seems not involved in that… but then it can be only GPU and driver:
what shows:

glxinfo -B