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iggames

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From: California, US

Registered: 2008-02-24

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GLSL support for intel x3100 video cards?

I recently purchased a Lenova Thinkpad T61. I opted for an Intel integrated graphics card (X3100) since I had heard Intel had good open source drivers. Recently, I tried to play with some GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) programming, but was greeted with segfaults at every turn. I finally downloaded and ran the examples from the bottom of this page: http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glsl … glexample1

Much to my surprise, they told me "No OpenGL 2.0 support" and "No GLSL support", respectively.

I am using xf86-video-intel-2.2.0-2 and the "Driver" in my xorg.conf is "intel".

Does anyone know anything about this? Am I out of luck hardware wise, or is this just a driver thing? Is support coming anytime soon? Am I using the wrong driver?

Thanks,
Jeremy

Last edited by iggames (2008-02-24 02:56:01)

KoS

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Registered: 2006-02-02

Posts: 35

Re: GLSL support for intel x3100 video cards?

The GMA X3100 really doesn't have OpenGL 2.0 support, only OpenGL 1.5 support.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA# … d_chipsets

I really don't know if the GLSL support can be implemented by the driver without OpenGL 2.0 hardware support.