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fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

Hey,

I am using the mesa driver from [testing].

After typing "glxinfo | grep version" I get:

OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1

I read somewhere that there is OpenGL 2 already.
Couldn't figure out how to upgrade.

Any help?
Tnx
Fiod

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

You have to install a grphics driver for your hardware. Mesa is only software rendering. Then you should have something like:

[pierre@opteron ~]$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7800 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.19

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fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

Thanks for the reply.

I already have xf86-video-intel installed, and xorg.conf is configured to use the "intel" driver.

Do I need to do anything else?

Fiod

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

You have to install a grphics driver for your hardware. Mesa is only software rendering. Then you should have something like:

From http://www.mesa3d.org/ faq :

1.2 Does Mesa support/use graphics hardware?

Yes. Specifically, Mesa serves as the OpenGL core for the open-source DRI drivers for XFree86/X.org. See the DRI website for more information.

There have been other hardware drivers for Mesa over the years (such as the 3Dfx Glide/Voodoo driver, an old S3 driver, etc) but the DRI drivers are the modern ones.

Edit : Well, I was thinking that maybe the intel driver didn't support opengl 2 (fully?) yet.
And apparently, that's at least the case for r300 :
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru … sa3d-users

Last edited by shining (2007-09-26 15:01:28)

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

Do you have libgl-dri installed?

fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

Yes I do.

I have libgl-dri from [testing] (ver 7.0.1-1) installed.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: OpenGL 2? I have only 1.3!

You can't upgrade OpenGL, except maybe you use software rendering and mesa gets a major upgrade. If your graphics card is old, so is its support for OpenGL.

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