My nVidia GeForce 8600M GT card stopped working: "extension GLX missing on display 0:0"
- by Wolter Hellmund
So I turned on my computer and log into my gnome-shell session to find that the shell is gone, and there is instead a very thick panel with a vertically repeated pattern of the gradient the Unity panel displays. I ran some tests and found out that my graphic acceleration was failing. I have attached some outputs of some commands to help helpers…