Re: Accessing mesa's OpenGL 2.1 features

2008-08-31 Thread Tim Day
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 15:34 +0100, Tim Day wrote: > How can I get mesa to provide it's nifty OpenGL 2.0+ features for stuff > rendering to the screen ? Aha: cracked it... The system had set itself up to use the DRI i915 drivers for the onscreen OpenGL, but doing aptitude install libgl1-mesa-swx1

Accessing mesa's OpenGL 2.1 features

2008-08-31 Thread Tim Day
I'm on a fairly fresh and up-to-date Debian/Lenny install on a Thinkpad X40. If I run some OpenGL code in an "OSMesa" context, glGetString(GL_VERSION) returns "2.1 Mesa 7.0.4", and glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS) shows various "shader" extensions, and "offscreen mesa" will run my GLSL code and render i