Trouble starting Steam in Debian 8
 

I'm getting this when trying to run a newley installed steam in debian 8

ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2015-05-29 23:50:34] Startup - updater built Aug 26 2014 15:35:42
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)


I have an NVIDIA geforce gtx 970 and I installed the drivers with the smxi script.

Any ideas how to fix it?

experimental repositories
 

Nevermind! I googled around and found that alot of people had trouble with proprietary NVIDIA drivers and steam so I tried using the drivers in the experimental repositories and steam works fine.

Hi,

Could you brief me on how exactly you managed to install the Nvidia drivers on your Debian 8 install?

I have a 970 card and I'm looking for information on how to install either NVIDIA's proprietary drivers or the experimental ones you mentioned.

If you know of a guide or instructions on how to please let me know, thank you.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphi...Version_340.65

That's the basic instructions on how to install Nvidia drivers "the debian way", except replace Jessie with Experimental, and install your kernel headers by themselves, then when you install nvidia-kernel-dkms, do an 'apt-get install -t experimental nvidia-kernel-dkms' in order to make sure it installs the newer 352 drivers (currently) instead of the older 340.

Maybe not the best worded. After adding the experimental repositories:

Once you do that how do you avoid having to again go through using the modprobe.blacklist=nouveau command?

I followed your instructions but after i rebooted once more i was brought to a text based login and that was it. No GUI came up.