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For some reason, any OpenGL game I try to play crashes when it wants to open the window. Let me give you an example from running teeworlds from terminal:

imnotanerd@sys76laptop:~$ teeworlds
# skip to the error
[5015be1f][gfx]: unable to set video mode: X11 driver not configured with OpenGL   
[5015be1f][gfx]: out of ideas. failed to init graphics

That X11 error will pop up with any OpenGL game I open. I've been researching this (Without much luck) and have seen that I should install SDL. Ok, so on to libsdl.org, download source, ./configure && make && make install, no errors with that, and the same error still shows. Any ideas on how to finally fix this?

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What graphics card do you have? Does your laptop have a hybrid graphics solution?\ –  Cumulus007 Jul 29 '12 at 23:42
My laptop is running HD 4000 on an i7. –  Imnotanerd Jul 30 '12 at 0:40

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Found the answer on this page. In case you don't feel like clicking here's the tl;dr:

From the SDL directory you downloaded: sudo make uninstall ; ./configure --prefix=/usr ; sudo make ; sudo make install

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