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OpenGL in Quake 4 not working after driver update

I updated my nVidia drivers a couple days ago using sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx, and now when I try and run Quake 4, OpenGL fails to start and Quake 4 doesn't open. glxgears works perfectly, and glxinfo returns a large matrix of numbers that I do not have the capacity to interpret. This problem only occurs in Quake 4; all of my other games that run on OpenGL (Enemy Territory, RTCW, various freeware games) work perfectly. Anyone know what's going on?

Maybe you need to reinstall the nvidia kernel module also.
run "glxinfo | grep direct"
It should say "direct rendering: Yes"

"glxinfo | grep direct" works fine, but after retrying Quake 4 I did notice that when OpenGL was trying to initialize, it failed to find an available device.

Code:

-------- Initializing Sound System ----------

sound system initialized.

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--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------

Initializing SDL subsystem

WARNING: SDL_Init failed: No available video device



Initializing SDL subsystem

WARNING: SDL_Init failed: No available video device



--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------

---------------------------------------------

WARNING: rvServerScanGUI::Clear() - invalid scanGUI



idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

Sys_Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL