GLX on NVIDIA OPTIMUS, Ubuntu 12.04

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Published on 2012-11-20T11:21:19Z Indexed on 2012/11/20 11:27 UTC
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I have a laptop that has an NVIDIA Optimus graphic card setup. I have tried running Minecraft on that laptop, and the game crashes after login, with the following error:

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not init GLX

I tried to update my drivers, but no driver update was available. I searched for people asking the same question and I found none, hence the following question:

Is it possible to enable GLX on NVIDIA Optimus? If yes, how to?

Thank you in advance.

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