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Dear Sir,

Please find hereby a bug report in regret that no workaround has been found yet to my knowledge. The issue is related to the deployment of virtualgl 2.5-1 which has introduced a number of intricate difficulties in a number of bumblebee/optirun use cases.

We can now say tentatively that a workaround in the Steam use case has been found ; however I must say that Wine users are still left in the dark (otherwise than downgrading virtualgl to 2.4-1), therefore this bug report.

A detailed exchange between me and the virtualgl author is available here: https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/15#issuecomment-191264333

The virtualgl author describes the issue as related to the way in which libvglfaker is packaged together with virtualgl, influencing in turn the symbol loading process at execution time. His analysis sounds correct to me, however I am in no way an expert in graphical software nor in packaging issues.

I would be very thankful that Mr. Sven-Hendrik Haase takes the time to read the analysis of the virtualgl author and examines eventually the possibility of corrective actions or workarounds, since the issue impacts not only Wine users (which should be numerous) but, as the virtualgl author states: "their implementation of VirtualGL will not work with any application that loads libGL symbols indirectly, and that encompasses a wide variety of applications (including lots of native Linux games-- not just Steam.)".

I thank you in advance for your valuable efforts in this context.

Kind regards,

Daniel