Nvidia driver installed but OpenGL unknown

[ElToro]

I have installed the latest Nvidia driver for my MSI GE70 laptop with a GeForce GTX 765M graphics card. Some games crash (intermittently), in particular Metro LL. Investigating the status of the driver, I get conflicting info:

sudo lshw -C Display gives:

  *-display               
       description: 3D controller
       product: GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 06
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:45 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)

However, the System Profiler and Benchmark gives:

Display

Resolution
1920x1080 pixels

Vendor
The X.Org Foundation

Version
1.15.0

Monitors

Monitor 0
1920x1080 pixels

Extensions

BIG-REQUESTS


Composite


DAMAGE


DOUBLE-BUFFER


DPMS


DRI2


DRI3


GLX


Generic Event Extension


MIT-SCREEN-SAVER


MIT-SHM


Present


RANDR


RECORD


RENDER


SECURITY


SGI-GLX


SHAPE


SYNC


X-Resource


XC-MISC


XFIXES


XFree86-DGA


XFree86-VidModeExtension


XINERAMA


XInputExtension


XKEYBOARD


XTEST


XVideo


OpenGL

Vendor
Unknown

Renderer
Unknown

Version
Unknown

Direct Rendering
No

Shouldn't the card show up under OpenGL, when it is otherwise correctly installed with the right driver? Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated

[spasmoid]

Wow. March 19th hey? Linux support is not what it used to be.

I basically have the same problem. I went to NVIDIA's site and downloaded drivers. It took me ages to fix all the issues to get them installed. So now I had a power outage, and when the machine comes back up, it suddenly forgets it's OpenGL support (and XBMC refuses to load).